how to move email to new system
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Jun 18 00:10:49 UTC 2007
Default User wrote:
> Extra credit question: why do email programs not store email messages as
> normal text files? Or would that be too simple, be too easy to
> maintain, and make too much sense?
>
I'll go for the extra credit. Just about all the Open Source e-mail
applications, including Evolution and Thunderbird, do, in fact, store
e-mail in a plain text file. They also use use supplementary index
files so the e-mail program can open and list messages without serially
scanning the entire e-mail folder ever time, but that's optional and can
be re-generated at any time.
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