[TriLUG] Speaking of Email

[Jon Carnes]

Heck you can run Eudora on Linux, but that wouldn't fit into to our
Debian Thunderbird mold...

Eurdora used to store their email in an mbox file. That format is
compatible with Evolution (and I believe T-bird).

For migrating to Evolution you would create the folders in Evolution
then stop Evolution, replace the mbox files created by Evolution with
the ones from your Eurdora - delete the current index files, then
restart Evolution... or you could be a wussy and just use the import
tool (but what fun is that?).

Good Luck - Jon Carnes


On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:29, matt-nc wrote:
> I'm migrating from Windows to Linux and have been wondering which email 
> client to choose.  I've been using Eudora Pro 4 for many years and like the 
> way that I can back up the individual mailbox and table of contents 
> files.  I suppose any of the top Linux email programs have a good way to do 
> backups.
> 
> I've mainly heard of Kmail, Evolution and Thunderbird.  Any suggestions or 
> comments about the relative merits?  I'm presently running Mandriva 10 but 
> I guess that shouldn't make a difference.
> 
> Would any of the Linux email clients be compatible with the Eudora .mbx and 
> .toc files?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
>