> >> Short of this, is there another format that pine can work with that can
> >> handle the larger file sizes that I can convert to with Mailutil? (I would
> >> like to use pine as I'm used to those aggregate sorting functions)
> >
> > Doesn't pine support everything c-client does? And since mailutil is
> > built on c-client...
> 
> But I don't know if c-client supports maildir out of the box.  I've seen 
> patches for it, but they seem kinda...sketchy.

Is there any particular need for maildir?

> I'm slowly investigating the use of alternative (non-mbox) file formats 
> system-wide, but support for them is sketchy unless I want to stay 
> "married" to c-client.  MBX seems to have issues with NFS.  Maildir is 
> just disgusting to me (other than as a reformatting tool in this case). 
> MIX, I hear good things about.

What does system-wide use have to do with your original request? I thought
you were only after a bit of one-off processing, and I would have
thought changing to MBX or MIX would be enough for you to do any of
the maintenance from pine that you say isn't possible with your 
unix-format folder (assuming it is possible with these other formats).

Perhaps I don't understand the situation correctly.

> I can't find a real good primer on the 
> advantages/disadvantages/compatibilites of the various formats.  Anyone 
> know of one?

http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/

Look at formats.txt, mixfmt.txt, and perhaps drivers.txt

Cheers,

        - Joel
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