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Thunderbird looks forwardThunderbird looks forwardPosted Apr 6, 2006 11:43 UTC (Thu) by sjlyall (subscriber, #4151)Parent article: Thunderbird looks forward
One thing about thunderbird that I don't like is it's use of an "indexed mbox" format to store emails in. The total lack of tools to convert maildirs mailboxes to mbox format is a real pain for those with many maildirs worth of old email.
Why not just go with maildir format? It is 100 times easier for external tools and reduces locking problems etc.
I can't see the reason to stick with a unique variation of an out of date storage method.
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Thunderbird looks forward Posted Apr 7, 2006 14:02 UTC (Fri) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link] Almost every mail program worth the name can read mbox. A good reason in itself. I don't know that many external tools which work properly with maildir - I guess procmail probably can, but other than that...
If you want to convert maildir to mbox, mutt will do the job, and I can't believe it's the only program.
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