On Apr 3, 2008, at 4:01 PM, till wrote: > I haven't seen pine and mutt in ages.
We use a desktop graphical MUA ( Thunderbird, Evolution, or Apple's Mail.app ), RoundCube, and also alpine ( the successor to pine ) for text logins. Example of text login use : A video editor is working in Final Cut Pro on OS X and wants to maximize the computer resources for that, but still remain attentive to incoming e-mail. A telnet session to the internal mail host and running alpine does that without the overhead of a modern browser or graphical desktop MUA. Instead of 40 to 100 MB, a Terminal session is less than 10 MB of RAM, and much less CPU overhead. A terminal window takes up less screen real estate too. > I can't comment on this though I > think an MUA uses IMAP as the interface and doesn't care about Mailbox > or Mbox in the backend. A remote MUA doesn't care about the type of mail storage, but something like alpine that accesses a local mail store does. Although alpine, pine or mutt can be configured to use either maildir or mbox. I believe you have to choose one, you can't mix. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients#Database. 2C_folders_and_customization> The first column lists the storage formats supported. Actually one of the big additions to alpine over pine is support for remote connections, it doesn't have to access a local mail store. I'm off in the weeds here now, so I'll go away. Charles Dostale System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com/ 824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265 _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
