Hi all.
I have decided that because of the benefits of using braille I will for
now mostly use Pine and mutt instead of mail.app; I like to have both pine
and mutt because there are features of each that I like. I've found that I
can indeed export my addressbook and I believe that through abook I can
them import the cards to use with mutt; it's also not really hard to adapt
them for pine. One can also use a program called lbdb (little brother
database) and with some modifications have mutt query the mail.app
addressbook directly instead of exporting/importing.
My question has to do with tapping into the Mail.app inbox. Right now I've
just created a separate mail setup with ~/mail as the directory and
/var/mail/chomiak as the spoolfile; this allows me to access messages in
either mutt or pine and also allows me to fetch messages directly in mutt
with the shift-g. But i wondered whether one could tap directly into
the Mail.app inbox instead. I found instructions to make a symlink with
/Users/chomiak/Library/Mail/account-name/INBOX-mbox/mbox (account-name
being whatever account name you have), but there didn't seem to be a mbox
under INBOX-mbox and substituting the Messages directory didn't seem to
work either. I could navigate down to those .emlx but the messages didn't
seem to be there. I know this is off-topic and may pursue this on a
mac-unix list if I decide to try to go further with this but wondered if
anybody on this list had succeeded in tapping into the mail.app inbox with
mutt or pine. I'm not at all unhappy with my present arrangement and also
am attempting to get getmail working, so I have lots of options.
One other comment: I'm noticing that even with the box checked to have
messages removed from the server, with my charter.net account, Apple Mail
does not allways appear to succeed in deleting those messages. Often mutt
or pine will download them again and then they are finally deleted from
the server. this could be a bug on Charter's end but thought I should
mention it in case somebody else ever gets warnings about a full inbox on
the server when you thought the messages were being deleted.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
