[plug] operating multiple e-mail clients

[Russell Steicke]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:36:18PM +0800, Daniel wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am using kmail and it goes into    
> '/home/daniel/Mail/'
> 
> I thought it should be a simple matter to alter this so it went into    
> '/home/daniel/kmail/Mail'
> so that I can then install Balsa and then Evolution etc so as to try 
> different mail clients.  Is this possible? (I've looked without success)

The best way I've found to use multiple mail clients is to run a local
imap server and use that for all your mailboxes.  Using courier-imap, I
currently switch between evolution, mutt, two instances of mozilla, and
also mutt operating on the mailboxes itself (Maildir format).

It can be a challenge to set up initially (working out where to put your
old mail so the imap server can see it), but after that imap makes
switching mailers trivial.

Russell



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