Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:39:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3729CC4C.3CF15108@smsi-roman.com>; from John R Sheets on Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:29:16AM -0500
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> Well, I use Pine at work, but I only get a dozen or so mails
> there per day.  Can you go back & forth between mutt and exmh2? 
> Do they use the same folder format?  Are most unix mail programs
> interchangeable like this?

No.  exmh2 uses the mh mail directory format.  Pine, mutt, and elm, use the
mbox format.  There are converters available, but switching back and forth
is not convenient nor particularly easy.

-- 
Nathan Ahlstrom                        FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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References:
- GUI email apps
  - From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>
- Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
  - From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
- Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
  - From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>
- Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
  - From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
- Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
  - From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>
- Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
  - From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
- Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
  - From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>
- Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
  - From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>

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