JR van Rensburg wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 15:30 -0700, Chris Tooley wrote:
>> I have a really neat thing in Thunderbird 3.1.11 that pops up on most 
>> emails from lists servs: a button that says "respond to list"...
>>
>> Except, it doesn't show up for the scientific linux users (SLusers)
>> list 
>> emails; I figure it's because of the email headers. 
> 
> Strange that, although I haven't participated in a list for years
> (forums (fora?) seem to be the in thing), I was pleasantly surprised to
> find evolution gives the choice!
> I gave up on Thunderbird when I had to recover/export my emails and
> found it stores everything in a myriad of files that cannot be exported
> too easily.

I am confused by your statement about Thunderbird.  Both Evolution and 
Thunderbird use classical UNIX mailbox (mbox) format.  It is easily 
searchable with grep and compatible with almost all non-Microsoft mail 
clients.  The data is already exported!

Rob