From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69A331382C5 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 08:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19EE4E09C8; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 08:15:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eglifamily.name (jupiter.newideatest.site [209.141.58.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1776E0997 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 08:15:18 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=newideatest.site; s=key1; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender: Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help: List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=zt+N2ht0BgKZbcvh7Yj/xc2SduQFCdyDV6zeGuDzRJc=; b=Rubg+AYWabrdEFNB9WJBo6q7cQ 6S6tqI7gJ8VUi1biny4f9CR1MREMHQg9Woe3nQr+ae+B6VV2e2uxmOfQL4ujLmeOERCpQ+B9Kn0tU 4Ox0p/tOh2v7irer2/OcDga4Zn6hy+zouJmyPatlEFsFBwnxiS1QXKkPReEiuyoXHDCw=; Received: from mobile-166-170-46-149.mycingular.net ([166.170.46.149] helo=[172.20.10.2]) by eglifamily.name with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.93.0.4) (envelope-from ) id 1lU3LI-0000Fv-DY; Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:15:16 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Dale References: <2c5ea74d-d104-67d1-cfc2-5336b26a8f00@gmail.com> <606C8B2B.9050809@youngman.org.uk> <1f8b27a7-68cc-4286-4fb6-ed2688d7825f@gmail.com> <4773d3e7-581a-b1dd-ba7c-dfd8a25ab1d0@youngman.org.uk> <75574ff9-fc62-6eae-c77b-e14572e83e75@gmail.com> From: Dan Egli Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 02:14:22 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.9.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <75574ff9-fc62-6eae-c77b-e14572e83e75@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: unscanned primary on eglifamily.name (209.141.58.25); Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:15:16 -0600 X-Archives-Salt: 4025ca9b-0cea-4d7d-ace2-73ba77e78fda X-Archives-Hash: 60287865c43452635c05b0fb1ffbc806 On 4/6/2021 10:41 PM, Dale wrote: > I've done some research.  It seems Dovecot is what I need.  It uses mbox > and has some features I might need one day already where Courier doesn't > but there isn't much difference really.  If anyone is curious, the > comparison is here. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers > > The biggest thing, mbox.  If I recall correctly that is what Seamonkey > uses and I should be able to import those easy enough.  It at least > gives me a head start.  Since this is a whole new deal, going to start a > new thread if nobody pops up and says nooooooo to Dovecot.  I found a > guide here: > Seamonkey is a web browser. Therefore, mbox vs maildir is meaningless to it. All it knows it it talks to the imap server and the imap server replies and sends a message. Having said that, AVOID mbox like the plague! It is only a matter of time before mbox mail files get corrupted. Maildir is INFINITELY safer. And in the event of corruption in maildir, you loose ONLY the corrupted messages. Corrupt your mbox file and you're likely to loose the whole folder! As far as moving from one to another, both mbox and maildir are standards. So if imap server X and Y both use Maildir, then swapping between them is easy, and POINTLESS, due to the fact that imap maintains the files on your server. So, if you move to a different mail CLIENT (thunderbird for example) then the new client only needs to take the time to re-download the messages from the server. It's the same way webmail and a client can work together. Neither is doing the actual work with the files. Each is only sending commands to a separate server program to work with the files. > http://www.wikigentoo.ksiezyc.pl/Dovecot.htm > > So far, it is Gentoo based.  I found another one but it is Ubuntu > based.  May work but commands are different.  Trying to go by a Gentoo > based one.  If anyone has a better one, please share links. > > May start new thread in a day or so if no one shouts nooooo. Consider this the shout. I can't stop you from using mbox, but I can shout at the top of my lungs that it's a BAD IDEA. And I can say over and over that changing your imap SERVER will have ZERO impact on what Seamonkey does. The only exception would be if you have a mail server (original or new) that doesn't fully follow the imap protocol. And in that case, who knows what the change will do.