[pmmail-list] Leaving PMMail for Thunderbird

[Tim Roberts]

Markus Baertschi wrote:

>I'm contemplating the same thing. How are you migrating your messages ?
>  
>
I was using a Python script once a month to archive my old messages in a 
one-file-per-month, Unix mailbox format anyway.  It was easy to modify 
it to collect a folder-at-a-time into the Thunderbird directory tree.  
Thunderbird is smart enough to automatically reindex the folder if the 
mailbox file is newer than its last index, and it automatically picks up 
newly creating mailboxes when it starts, so the message import was all I 
needed.

Thunderbird is also able to do CSV import of address books, so I wrote 
another short Python script to munge the PMMail address book files into 
a CSV format.

>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:50:57 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>>Well, folks, after a 5-year run with PMMail, I find that I can no longer 
>>put up with the inferior (and unchanging) support for valid MIME 
>>structures and reasonably formatted e-mail.  I'm switching today to 
>>Thunderbird.  Even though it is only at version 0.4, it is already a 
>>winner, as far as I can tell.  My only complains are with performance, 
>>and that will only improve as time goes on.  Plus, it is available in 
>>source form, so I can fix the things that drive me nuts!
>>    
>>

-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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