Migrating to FreeBSD from Debian

[Dr. Nikolaus Klepp]

Am Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2015 schrieb Dutch Ingraham:
> > I'm looking for a maildir capable GUI mailclient for FreeBSD. My
> transition from Debian to FreeBSD is stuck in the middle for a year as I
> still have to use Devuan+TDE for my office work, not at least because of
> kmail. I know, KDE comes with a kind of kmail, but that does not fit the
> bill (akonadi + nepomik ... *shudder*).
> >
> > Nik
> 
> Doesn't Thunderbird fit the bill? [1]
> 
> [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
> 


Sorry to say, no. Thundebirds maildir relies on index files. If e.g. fetchmail + procmail place mails in Mail/inbox/cur, these mails will not show up in Thunderbird till the index is rebuilt.

Nik


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