Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

[Ben Scott]

On 11/2/06, Kevin D. Clark <kclark at elbrysnetworks.com> wrote:
>> I use fetchmail, it speaks pop and IMAP.  My messages are stored in
>> text files.  I can easily move my messages to any computer and client
>> I want with tar and scp.
>
> Please tell us how you'd use tar and scp to copy your messages over to
> a machine that uses (for example) the Eudora mailer.  Please give us
> specific details.
>
> Continuing this thought-experiment, tell us how, after you'd used
> Eudora for a while, please tell us how you'd import all of your mail
> into Thunderbird.

  Better still, explain how one can switch between the two machines
and still access all the same mail, using Eudora on one and
Thunderbird on the other.

-- Ben "IMAP zealot" Scott