<html><head></head><body>Have you tried Thunderbird? As I have drunken the cloud kool-aid I have not used it to store my mail files locally. AFAIK it can and does so reasonably well. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 22, 2017 5:49:58 PM CST, Glen Ditchfield <GJDitchfield@acm.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Aside from plain orneryness, I picked Linux long ago because of KDE,<br />and KDE because of Kontact. And because it was long ago, I still pull<br />my mail off the ISP's server and dump it into a local Maildir folder,<br />my contacts are still in a vCard file, my calendar is still in a<br />vCalendar file. <br /><br />The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" development process<br />(Google it) made this harder with each KDE release. For a long time I<br />was willing to edit RC files to trick it into using boring text files<br />in my home directory instead of shiny new formats in hidden<br />directories, but the CADT Team finally produced a release where the<br />shiny desktop search daemon rendered the maildir folders unusable if a<br />mail filter tried to move mail out of the inbox. After three rebuilds<br />I gave up and switched to Evolution.<br /><br />Evolution is mostly adequate, but I just spent 5 hours composing a<br />carefully argued response to a proposal, and Evolution threw it away<br />when I tried to apply the TT style to a word in a bulleted list.<br /><br />So, it you wanted PIM functions on an Ubuntu 17.10 laptop, and you<br />wanted to keep your files locally, and you wanted to know where all the<br />relevant files were so you could back them up, what would you use?<br /><hr /><br />Roundtable mailing list<br />Roundtable@muug.ca<br /><a href="https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable">https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable</a><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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