Em 22/3/2012 10:48, PICdude escreveu: > Quoting Sergey Dryga : >> I do not know if any Windows email client uses maildir format. If you a= re >> familiar with linux already, just install VMWare player, then install yo= ur >> favorite linux distro under virtual machine and download your emails. >> Sometimes webmail clients have option to download emails, check this out= too. > > Also thinking it may be the way to go right now. Or I could just =20 > setup Linux to dual-boot on one of my existing machines. > > So far, Thunderbird and Pegasus does maildir. Installed Pegasus last =20 > night and it downloaded 4800 emails before stopping. Have to think =20 > there's some internal limit with that cause it's just too cardinal of =20 > a number. It left all on the server though. Re-starting this morning =20 > resulted in a full restart. > > I clearly remember stopping kmail during its download from the same =20 > hosts and when restarted later it would continue from where it left =20 > off. It did delete the downloaded ones off the server in the interim. =20 > The Linux option is looking better and better now. Thunderbird supports IMAP. Although IMAP clients usually don't download the messages until they are read, Thunderbird does. With IMAP it won't restart from beginning in case of an interruption and a restart. In POP3 mode, Thunderbird has a bug that sometimes messages with large attachments are downloaded over and over creating several copies of it in the list, without Thunderbird marking them as already downloaded and it also doesn't download any messages other than that. It happened today to me. The only solution was to access the webmail server and deleting the offending message. Isaac --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .