Re: Alpining

2009-08-24 Thread Aidan Gauland
John Carter wrote: Hokay... there are several things that get into the act of futzy around with mail. snip I'd rather leave my messages on the IMAP server, and keep things as simple as possible on my end. It looks as if Alpine can do the ultra simple filtering that I need, so I'd rather

Re: Alpining

2009-08-23 Thread John Carter
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Aidan Gauland wrote: My sticking point is... setting it up. In mail readers I have used up until now, there are separate fields in the configuration dialogs for each parameter for the mail servers. In Alpine, it's all one field for both the inbox and the SMTP server,

Re: Alpining

2009-08-22 Thread Aidan Gauland
My sticking point is... setting it up. In mail readers I have used up until now, there are separate fields in the configuration dialogs for each parameter for the mail servers. In Alpine, it's all one field for both the inbox and the SMTP server, and I don't know how it's supposed to be

Re: Alpining

2009-08-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Aidan Gauland wrote: Hello, A while ago--a long while ago, I think--someone on this list shared his excitement over discovering Alpine, because he was a fan of Pine. I have since tried a few times to set up Alpine--because it sounded better than anything else I have

Re: Alpining

2009-08-19 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Aidan Gauland wrote: A while ago--a long while ago, I think--someone on this list shared his excitement over discovering Alpine, because he was a fan of Pine. Sounds like me. but I have failed to overcome the geekiness of it every time. I set up my

Re: Alpining

2009-08-19 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, I have written on the wonders of alpine before. It still beats all of the graphical tools I have tried. It is better than many of my colleague's email systems. So yes, I am happy to answer questions. I would note that google is your friend - alpine examples abound on the web. In my