At 15:21 -0600 24-1-2003, Dennis Fazio wrote: >--On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 04:39 PM -0500 Malcolm Hamilton ><malcolm_hamilton at cbc.ca> wrote: > >>I?ve been reading a lot about what different e-mail apps do. >>Thanks for any advice! > >To add an extra $0.02, I think one of the most important features of >a mailer is what format it stores the mail in. Therefore, consider >mailers that store mail in Unix mbox format, which is plain text. >You can look at or even edit your mail folder contents with text >editors if needed and it's already in a format usable by several >other mailers. > >I believe Eudora does this I completely agree with Dennis about the mail (and I could add: Address book) format. He is correct that Eudora stores everything in a kind of text format. So it is always accessible. In the early days (8+ years ago) I had a few problems, and could always access my mail and(my very large) address book. regards, Trevor