Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I know you've objected to the previous suggestion of an IMAP server, but it really does sound like what you want.
It was a pretty mild objection; I'd like to avoid it if I can but it's the obvious way to do things, and may be the only way. I do come back to the point that in would find it useful to be able to do this for other people, with less PC expertise and with a lesser OS, but that's a side issue as my own mail is more important anyway :-)
It would be in keeping with the Unix way of doing things if the functions of TB were separated out a little so that it dropped mail into a Maildir structure and/or it viewed mail from that same structure, so I could (if I chose) use something other than TB to fetch the mail, and I could (as I'm trying to do here) use something other than TB to view the mail. To TB's credit they do currently use mbox rather than something unique to TB, but it's a shame they picked mbox over Maildir (actually mbox is probably better for most people, but supporting both would be great for everyone!)