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* Thunderbird to Emacs migration
@ 2010-03-12 21:08 John Bokma
  2010-03-12 23:15 ` Giorgos Keramidas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: John Bokma @ 2010-03-12 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs


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

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2010-03-12 21:08 Thunderbird to Emacs migration John Bokma
2010-03-12 23:15 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-03-13  5:17   ` David Rogoff
2010-03-13 21:44     ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-03-14  2:27     ` Galen Boyer
2010-03-14  9:55     ` Vagn Johansen
2010-03-14 11:42       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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