Mail clients - which way forward?

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On 03/13/2010 03:25 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 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.
>

  I think the OP meant local store is mbox only - obviously the mail
client is indifferent to the imap server storage choice.

 gene