On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:55 +0100 Maurice Batey <maur...@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:25:21 +0100, Graham P Davis wrote: > > > I don't know where you saw that Claws uses mbox directories. It uses > > the MH format, not mbox. > > Looking in File-> Import (in version 3.7.5), the options shown are: > > - Import mbox file > - Export to mbox file > - Export selected to mbox file > > I.e. no mention of anything but mbox. > (My Kmail email message base is in maildir form.) > > 'Add mailbox' offers no choice other than 'MH'(which I see is > "similar" to maildir.) > > So if I started with MH, there would likely be problems returning > to a 'maildir' world, as claws will apparently only export as 'mbox'. > > Perhaps there are mbox<-->maildir converters around, but I have not > seen enough yet to convert me to the claws world (which does > otherwise look quite neat). Kmail used to export mbox folders amongst other things but I can't see that feature in Kmail2. Kmail2 imports mbox and many other formats including Sylpheed, which is what Claws used to be, so importing MH files direct may also be possible. -- Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. OS: Linux: openSUSE 12.1 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.4; _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
