Re: overview of e-mail utilities and programs in linux??

[Daniel Knapp]

> Another question is is the format for e-mail in linux consistent?  That
> is if I'm using say pine and switch to mutt am can I transfer my mail
> dirs from pine to mutt (or just point mutt to the dir) and have the file
> format be compatible?  And are these formats compatible with netscape --
> which I'm currently using for my own mail in imap mode (until I can get
> ftape or some type of backup working in linux).

The normal format of eMails is the "iso-8859-1" character-set. If you want
to transfer existing folders from pine to mutt you only have to set both
mutt and pine to that character-set. I am not familiar with mutt but you
can tell pine that it should use other folders as the default ones.

-Dan


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