From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Bokma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Thunderbird to Emacs migration Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:08:37 -0600 Organization: Castle Amber Message-ID: <87bpetp7sa.fsf@castleamber.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272992565 15247 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:02:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:02:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:02:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9LW6-0001mF-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:02:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LW6-0006HU-3d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:02:42 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 7ET3iOGOqlR6MTvcw/tXbQn9wddgwFaJaaIIVOEbvMMIUyWZfb Cancel-Lock: sha1:oL6On+GapCAMNQS/5qyn2xDIwyY= sha1:NI91DZq4IzZUwSQCmfRBOLXJzzw= X-Url: http://johnbokma.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177444 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72961 Archived-At: I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird for many years. For the past year or so I've been using Emacs more and more (first as editor, now also to access Usenet), and I am wondering how easy migrating from Thunderbird to Emacs would be and which Emacs email solution would be the best. Yesterday I read a bit about RMail in the Emacs manual (book), but I am aware that there are several more packages to work with Email. Questions: - which package(s) do you recommend for reading/writing email (I have several accounts, most POP3, and one IMAP. Some POP3 accounts use SSL/TLS with CRAM) - is it possible to work directly with the email files Thunderbird creates, or do I have to convert them? Ideally (for me) both programs should be able to use the same mail files [1]. If not possible I would like to convert my current email to something Emacs can handle, and start using Emacs for just reading my email and see how it goes. Thanks for reading, John [1] If I have to quit one program to be able to use the other one it's not a major issue, as long as I can keep one set of mail files. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development