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On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:43:51 -0500 |
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Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> That seems like it will likely be tricky. I don't know a lot about |
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> kmail, but I've got two ideas that might work: |
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> 1) Depending on what kmail can do, you might be able to set up a |
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> maildir or mbox folder with kmail, and have kmail transfer all that |
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> mail into it. I believe Thunderbird can ready both mbox and maildir, |
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> so that might be a nice solution if kmail can do that. |
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> 2) Another idea I thought of that might be heavy handed, but might |
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> also work would be to set up an IMAP server of your own. Then you can |
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> connect kmail to that IMAP server, transfer all your mail to the |
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> server, then connect Thunderbird to it and import it. It's certainly |
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> not a simple idea, but it should work. Cyrus is the IMAP server that I |
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> use, but there are others, and perhaps some that are simpler to |
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> configure. |
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I use option 2) as well, to great effect. I run dovecot locally and |
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back in the KDE3 days had transferred all my mail into it. kmail's |
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INBOX was the default kmail folder, and filters moved every incoming |
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mail to an IMAP folder. |
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It runs slower than local mail folders (IMAP will never be as fast as |
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simply looking on the disk) but it comes with the benefit of a sane |
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maildir folder that dovecot reads without any of the peculiarities that |
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all mail clients seem to have about their own local storage. And |
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switching mail clients (or using two at the same time) is a simple |
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matter of configuring a new mail source on the client. |
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The best solution of all would be to have some process fetch your mail |
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from everywhere and have procmail filter it. I never bothered going to |
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that extent though, I just relied on filters in my primary mail client. |
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It has the benefit that a mail client only reads and sends, and is not |
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involved with changing the master mail store in any way (aka kmail2's |
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ability to disastrously fuck up your mail life completely is severely |
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limited) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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