Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

[Ben Scott]

On 11/2/06, mike ledoux <mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu> wrote:
>>  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.
>
> Reframe the question, use a text based mailer and ssh to your mail
> from anywhere.  Beware one-true-wayism.

  That works fine as long as you're willing to limit yourself to a
text based mailer that happens to run on the OS of your mail server
and understands the storage format of the mail.

  The point was I was getting at was that IMAP is also *client*
independent.  You can switch back and forth between any number of
clients, without worrying about the mail storage format.  Pine, Mutt,
Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora, Opera, Outlook, Outlook Express, Mac
OS X's mail client, various web-mail interfaces, etc.  Just about
everything newer than /bin/mail supports IMAP these days (except *mh,
whose "filesystem is mail store" isn't easily adaptable to IMAP).
Likewise, you can migrate mail servers and mail storage formats
without affecting clients.

  Whether or not any of that's useful to you is your call, of course,
but that's the point I was getting at.  :)

> Beware one-true-wayism.

  Indeed.  :)

-- Ben