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I'm planning to do some backups of my e-mails in my yahoo account.
I'm afraid to do it using Outlook or Thunderbird, and be "locked" to their formats. I know Thunderbird is Open Source, but I don't know if it's format specification is a standard one, and just because it's open source doesn't mean it would be easy to recover data in the future.
Does exist a standard format specification to e-mails downloaded from POP3 accounts, that I would be able to read/open without specifically opening the e-mails accounts?
Each file would be an e-mail, with metadata as data received, attachments, and such.
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+1 for mentioning that about Thunderbird, and here's a reference: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq#export. I second the suggestion (which everybody has made, I guess) that mbox format is the way to go because it's the closest thing to a standard email storage format.
– David Z – 2010-06-24T18:07:22.503