Re: OSX Mail app → Emacs ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>]

Thank you those were very helpful hints.

Jean-Christophe

> On Jun 3, 2017, at 13:11, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> 
>>> I would not worry about the past. No one can
>>> do anything about the past and the future
>>> will come, inevitably.
>> 
>> In the meanwhile I have ongoing projects that
>> require me to use the old system...
> 
> OK, so now you are even more motivated to
> finish them off ASAP :)
> 
>> Not "really old" I never used IMAP.
>> Everything I do is over POP. The Mail
>> structure is tons of subfolders that contain
>> .mbox files.
> 
> mbox should be very possibly to import directly
> into Gnus and/or respool into whatever you
> switch to! How should be in the Gnus manual.
> 
> I would recommend a backend which stores mails
> single files (one file per mail), e.g. nnml.
> That way you can use the shell tools on the
> mails much easier than those
> many-mails-in-one-file methods.
> 
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