On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:56, Timothy Bateman wrote:
> I want to find a solution so both Evolution and Pine can access the
> same mbox file so I can choose to use either interchangeably. Is this
> possible ?
I can think of two definite solutions I've tried. But you're probably
not going to like either of them. :-)
Switch to Maildir.
I have all of my mail living in multiple Maildir mail folders.
Evolution handles Maildir much better than mbox - rather than having to
create a seperate account for each mbox, you can just point it at a set
of nested Maildirs, and it will read them all in and present them as a
tree of folders. Mutt also handles Maildir fine, and pine should as
well.
Install a local imap server.
This is slightly easier, as you can keep your mbox(es). Evolution's
imap support is, IMHO, brilliant. I was using it for quite a while
before I moved all of my mail onto my laptop. Mutt has caught up a lot
with its imap handling as well, but I'm not sure where pine stands on
this.
<obPineSucks>
Pine has a very restrictive licence. In my opinion, it also doesn't
have the features and usefulness of something like mutt. And SLUG has a
loyal army of mutt users to help you over the bumpy getting-to-know-you
bits. Might be well worth switching. :-)
</obPineSucks>
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