> They do?? I was thinking of the Bat, and was told it didn't do it. So I
> haven't even tried.
I am sure somebody has written some tool for it.
>>>| The hard way would be to just drag and drop your folders
>>>| into an IMAP server and then download them in the other
>>>| client. But if you do that, you could just leave them on
>>>| the IMAP server ;-)
>
> How does one do this? It may be the hard way .... But if it's the only
> way .... ???? I would investigate it.
Get an IMAP capable server, create your account on it, and you can just treat your email on the server like it is in local folders. Drag & drop. It might take a while if you need to upload a few GB to a server, but it is all the mail client doing the work and one would expect the mail client to be able to read its own files.
> I was thinking of using the Bat, was was open to suggestions.
> Thunderbird sounds good, any cons?
There are always cons. The question is whether they are relevant to your usage pattern. The 2 I hear most often are:
- no shared inbox
In some email clients you can collect email from several accounts into one local inbox. Not in Thunderbird, it will end up in separate inboxes. (But since I preach IMAP and leaving all email on the server, that is no big deal to me.)
- no from/to column in overview
Some people like to keep all of their outgoing messages in the same folder as their incoming messages. Whenever it is incomming email, it should display the from address, when it is outgoing email, it should display the to address. Thunderbird currently does not do this (but I believe it is in beta now).
Jochem
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