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Re: [Nmh-workers] switching from thunderbird to nmh
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] switching from thunderbird to nmh |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:41:04 -0400 |
>I'd like to switch to using nmh for email handling. I've been using
>thunderbird for the last few years.
Great! Glad to get a new user! If you don't mind me asking ... how
come you decided to switch? We get a lot of people going the other way,
so I am curious why you decided to go against the tide. Not that I'm
complaining!
>I understand the nmh mail format is a little different from mbox format
>or maildir format. Is there any conversion utility out there? I've
>searched but only found utilities for people going the other way.
So, it's not obvious ... but the "inc" utility does that. It will take
a mbox file (or, I belive, a Maildir dropbox if you have a new enough
version) and incorporate it into a nmh folder.
>Alternatively, a pointer to the documentation of what the nmh format
>actually is would be helpful. I haven't found a concise description
>yet.
The man page mh-mail(5) should describe that. Basically, each message
is in it's own file, each folder is a directory. Messages have
filenames that are all numbers. Each message is pretty much straight
RFC 2822 format, except using Unix newline conventions. Although
looking at the man page now, I see that it's a bit out of date; for
example, messages nowadays are not limited to 7-bit ASCII in the body.
>Also, I need nmh to get email by imap. How can I configure that? Or am
>I supposed to use fetchmail for that?
_If_ your IMAP server also supports POP, inc can incorporate messages
from that. Otherwise, fetchmail is probably the best solution.
--Ken