[Alpine-info] Dealing with Alpine's single-threadedness

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

>>> How does everyone here keep track of emails they need to finish/write in 

>>> Alpine?

>> 

>> I just run a few (dozen? I jest) alpines.

>> 

>

> Really? I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that it was usually a 

> bad idea to have multiple connections to the same IMAP server(s). I'm more 

> sure of that opinion in the case of different clients that don't have superb 

> IMAP support. But, still, that might be wrong, too.

>


To add to this:

I never store any passwords that I care about on disk. So, that makes 
opening a new Alpine window slightly annoying. Especially if I were to do 
it several (dozen) times per day.