E-mail is old and complex. It’s the oldest still-recognizable component of the Internet, with its modern incarnation having coalesced out of several different decades-old messaging technologies ...

I talk about mutt a lot in this column, if you hadn't noticed. For me, in this day and age of large graphical mail programs and Web-based mail applications, you still can't beat the speed, power and ...

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I'm using the default dovecot install on Warty as an IMAP server, which apparently stores mail in the mbox format. It seems like I just backup ~/mail, and /var/mail/<username> - which is the ...