Mail clients - which way forward?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 03/13/2010 11:22 AM, mike cloaked wrote:
> Even though the local storage is in mbox format which I dislike (I far
> prefer maildir), I don't need it since I run a local dovecot imap
> server on each machine and run filters to copy mail to the local imap
> store which then also has the advantage that mail is client agnostic.
>   
Thunderbird automatically supports mbox & maildir, providing
that dovecot & sendmail (or postfix) are properly configured
for maildir.  I have exactly that and works great with Thunderbird.

FWIW,
Dan