[GTALUG] POP3 vs IMAP

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:38:06 -0400
Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> OK, having just looked up how MH does it, I am horrified anyone would
> design something so awful.  Changing mail sorting by renaming the
> message files?  That's insane. :)
> 
> I can say for certain I will never ever consider the use of MH.

Lennart,

   I have been using Sylpheed and MH format since July 23, 2003.  At least, those are my earliest email files.  I have no complaints.  A separate file for each email makes it easier to use grep to search your email archives.  

   I recall liking the mbox format.  I had things set up so that I could launch pine, balsa or kmail, depending on my mood.  I found that Netscape would delete emails by setting a flag that the other email programs did not recognize. 

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