Re: unix mbox as default

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:
> Set up a local folder collection to have "#driver.unix/" as the prefix 
> for the name, e.g.,
> 	folder-collections=Mail\[],
> 		"Create New Mailbox" #driver.unix/mail\[]

ok, this works for creating a Unix mbox, but I am surprised that I cannot 
see any of my mailboxes in the "Create New Mailbox" collection, even 
though they are all Unix mailboxes. In order to see them, I have to open 
the "Mail" collection.

I had hoped something like:

folder-collections="Mail" #driver.unix/mail\[]

would work.


> Did you use the correct syntax, which is a prefix of "#driver.unix/"?

- no I didn't. Thanks for the correction - I'll define myself a new 
keyboard macro: "a\n#driver.unix/mail\" as a workaround.

Otherwise I have found no significant difference between working with unix 
mboxes and mbx. The only difference seems to be when Alpine is reading the 
unix mbox for the first time, creating it's pseudo-messages - but then I 
don't have any mbx folders to import since no other software (except 
Mahogany) seems to understand mbx. As long as I am not sure if I would 
switch to another mail client, I want to keep my (voluminous) mail in a 
standard format, e.g. Unix mailboxes.

I'd like to process my mailboxes with Python. It seems fairly easy to read 
an mbx, but it is neither fully documented, nor does it seem to stay with 
us: the "new" format seems to be mix - which isn't supported by the 
Windows version of Alpine (1.0) yet, and which is also not supported by 
any other software. So I chose to stay with traditional Unix format for 
now.

Thanks for Alpine. I like it particularly because I can treat mail folders 
just like any other files, and can have mailboxes in arbitrary places 
(using folder collections). I have named all my mailboxes <something>.mbox 
and associated mbox with 'alpine -i -f "%1"', allowing me to open a 
mailbox by clicking on it.

The downside is: The keyboard interface is inconsistent and there is no 
built-in fulltext search over all folders in a collection.

- Josef


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