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Peter Davis  
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 More options Sep 20 2012, 1:55 pm
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From: Peter Davis <p...@pfdstudio.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:55:32 -0400
Local: Thurs, Sep 20 2012 1:55 pm
Subject: Re: [VM] Beginner VM questions
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:26:17PM +0100, Uday Reddy wrote:
> Peter Davis writes:

> > Ok, since this was met with stoney silence, and my searches for using VM
> > with Maildir haven't been too fruitful, how about MH format? I assume VM
> > still supports that, right?

> Sorry, Peter.  You are out luck.  VM doesn't support either mailder or MH
> format (yet).  There is an on-going wishlist item, but I have no idea when
> we will get to it.  

Thanks, Uday. I was pretty sure I was using VM with MH-format folders
about 10 or 11 years ago, but that was probably a whole different
incarnation of VM.

> If you are commiting to using VM, then your best bet is to keep VM folders
> in its native mbox format, and work with Mutt and VM in parallel for a
> while.  Once you are sure you are comfortable with VM, you can convert
> maildir/MH folders to mbox folders.  I think MH has a way of doing it.

> There is no problem with accessing POP3 servers from VM, or downloading mail
> from them into VM folders.

I was going to try a few different MUAs in parallel, to see the
benefits and shortcomings of each. I suppose I could setup VM to fetch
POP3 messages without deleting them from the server, right? Then I
could have separate mbox and Maildir archives for a while.

Thank you!

-pd


 
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