R. G. Newbury wrote:
I like the way thunderbird works, otherwise. I need an e-mail client which keeps messages as single items (files) and which can rebuild its indexes of the messages in each folder without painful interventions, so that I can merely rsync the appropriate folder structure into one place for a full backup of all computers. (I have had these features for years using pmmail in OS/2 but I have made the switch and will not go back..but I do miss some things.)
Suggestions please.
How do you receive your e-mail?
One option which *would* work, but would be a bit of setting up, would be to use fetchmail plus a mailserver (I'd recommend Postfix) plus procmail to deliver your e-mails into a Maildir format folder (or series of folders), then use Dovecot to make them available via the IMAP protocol to any IMAP-compliant mail client you like (including Thunderbird).
This also makes it very easy to switch between e-mail clients at a whim, and to try out different ones.
And, of course, it means that you can access your e-mail from any of your computers.
I've got this working fine for me.
James.