Re: Pine and Maildir

Peter Beckman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?

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