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It looks good! My one complaint would be that it doesn't save messages in MBOX format (I do see that it has an import option and a plugin for reading MBOX files

• adrian_b 3y ago
  I prefer a lot the e-mail messages that are saved as individual plain text files, grouped in directories. In this case it is trivial to do, even without any MUA, any operations like exporting, importing, searching, moving, deleting, extracting and so on, either manually or with scripts. I have seen in the past problems with certain MUAs that had an obfuscated mailbox format, where the mailbox was a black hole that captured your messages, which were very difficult to export and import into another MUA, if a change was desired or if the original MUA became corrupted.
  • autoexec 3y ago
    The main advantage of MBOX files is that you only have one file per mail folder and all the filenames are known and constant no matter how much mail comes in. It means if you have a ton of mail you aren't dealing with massive numbers of tiny files. The files are still plain text and contain the bodies and full headers for each message so I can use grep or even perl to pull information from them easily. Exporting into other formats can still be tricky though because not everyone can handle MBOX and there are variations.