against databases

[Dan Callahan]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Stephen Washburn
<stephen.washburn at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Caio Chassot wrote:
>
>> On 2010-01-19, at 22:08 , Anthony Meadow wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the biggest problems with a database approach is import and
>>> export. Whatever the solution I think it's important that the migration path
>>> to Letters - as well as the migration path from Letters - should be easy.
>>> After ten years on Eudora 6.2.4 I'm finally trying out Thunderbird, Eudora 8
>>> and Postbox (a commercial off-shoot of Thunderbird) and having to run
>>> gigabytes of mail through buggy converters is no fun. But the Thunderbird
>>> version of mbox is a defacto standard.
>>
>> We're not doing POP. Your emails are already on your IMAP account.
>>
>> There's no migration issue.
>
> Unless you've moved the messages to a local folder from the IMAP account as
> a result of space restrictions on the account, right?

The solution here isn't "local folder" but "local imap server."

-Dan