On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 00:38, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:38:29PM +1100, Craig Ayliffe wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > the mail is in /Maildir structire > > > > > > if I recall, pine was suggested as what I could use ? > > > > > > I don't seem to be able to access the actual /Maildir:
pine doesn't 'do' maildir. It's intended to be used with an imap server (uw-imap is what they recommend). If you want to get to your maildirs, another option (assuming you don't want to change mail clients) is to run courier-imap or dovecot or something on your server and configure pine to get your mail out of imap. I'd recommend not using mbox, Maildir is a lot faster. If you were crazy, you could theoretically index an mbox to go as fast as Maildir, but since that code is already in your filesystem, no-one has bothered, and I don't blame them. > Some of the advantages of mutt (to which jeff alluded earlier), > * you can set the editor to vim you can do that with pine as well. > * you can just make a big .muttrc and you are set Pine also has this notion of "configuration files". They're somewhat ubiquitous these days. > * Maildir and procmail work well together procmail That's completely orthogonal. [...] Pine is less powerful than mutt, but it's also less complicated (and zealots reliably inform me that mutt is more better in many other ways). I quite like pine, used it all through my university days. Anyway, this is not answering the original question. I can only suggest installing an imap server so you can get pine to read your maildirs. HTH, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
