>I'd like to switch to using nmh for email handling. I've been using >thunderbird for the last few years.
Great! Glad to get a new user! If you don't mind me asking ... how come you decided to switch? We get a lot of people going the other way, so I am curious why you decided to go against the tide. Not that I'm complaining! >I understand the nmh mail format is a little different from mbox format >or maildir format. Is there any conversion utility out there? I've >searched but only found utilities for people going the other way. So, it's not obvious ... but the "inc" utility does that. It will take a mbox file (or, I belive, a Maildir dropbox if you have a new enough version) and incorporate it into a nmh folder. >Alternatively, a pointer to the documentation of what the nmh format >actually is would be helpful. I haven't found a concise description >yet. The man page mh-mail(5) should describe that. Basically, each message is in it's own file, each folder is a directory. Messages have filenames that are all numbers. Each message is pretty much straight RFC 2822 format, except using Unix newline conventions. Although looking at the man page now, I see that it's a bit out of date; for example, messages nowadays are not limited to 7-bit ASCII in the body. >Also, I need nmh to get email by imap. How can I configure that? Or am >I supposed to use fetchmail for that? _If_ your IMAP server also supports POP, inc can incorporate messages from that. Otherwise, fetchmail is probably the best solution. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
