Re: Pine and Maildir
Michael Brown <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.pine.general |
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Jason wrote: > You could do this, but Pine doesn't play nicely with other MUAs. If, > for example you have Thunderbird accessing the same mail files as Pine, > Pine will re-open the files read-only. Is there any reason you don't > want Pine using IMAP? My mail server is the same system where I read > mail and I use local IMAP to access it with Pine and I use T-bird when I > get something with attachments, links, etc. I probably split 50/50 > between the mailers and it's seamless. > > Rick Gaine wrote: > >> I'd prefer to have Pine access mail locally instead of using IMAP. >> Since mail is delivered to ~/Maildir, there is no need for Pine to >> establish a network connection at all. Our IMAP server is running >> dovecot - not my choice - and the folders created through that are >> prefixed with a "." I'm just wondering if Pine can mimic this behavor. >> I used to think that too - why use IMAP when the mail is local? My mail happiness factor increased 33% when I switched to using IMAP for all mail access. You should be able to rig up the config file so it runs 'imapd' directly to make things convenient. M. -- Michael Brown, Systems Consultant Net Direct Inc. +1 519 883 1172 x5106 _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info