[Novalug] Fedora->Ubuntu, Pine->Sylpheed-Claws

[Angelo Bertolli]

Garrett Nievin wrote:
> Having just migrated from Fedora to Ubuntu, I think I'd like to 
> migrate also from Pine to Sylpheed-Claws.
>
> I'd like to bring all my old emails and folder structure and procmail 
> rules along with me - has anybody done that?

Procmail works on the server as the MDA, so it should filter your mail 
just as it always has.  I think pine puts mbox files in a directory 
called Mail, which I presume you're using on the server?  Which protocol 
are you going to use to retrieve your mail?

I like to use IMAP and I use both Thunderbird on Windows and Sylpheed on 
Linux (because the machine is slower).  On the server the directory I 
keep my mailboxes in is under ~/mail/ and both Sylpheed and Thunderbird 
allow me to specify this as my default IMAP location or namespace or 
whatever they call it.  If you do something like this, you should be 
able to use pine in conjunction with Sylpheed easily.  Otherwise, if you 
want to use POP... you may only have access to your inbox file, I'm not 
sure.  If that's the case, one easy thing to do is move all  your mail 
to the inbox before you download it.

I opted to go with Sylpheed instead of Claws, does anyone know the 
difference?

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