Re: Pine and Maildir
Peter Beckman <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Michael Brown wrote: > 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. Is IMAP better than local access to a unix mbox? Maildir? I've always hated using IMAP with pine due to speed, but I haven't tried it in the last 2 years. Why did you become more happy when switching to IMAP? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy [email protected] http://www.purplecow.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info