[Alpine-info] Setting Mac's default email handler to alpine

[Mark Crispin]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Matt Ackeret wrote:

>> On Windows, it spawns PC Alpine, which I can assure you is very much a GUI

>> program.

> windows != Mac, obviously, so how is that relevant AT ALL?


Because the ever-so-superior Mac can't do something that Windows has been 
able to do for years.

So can Linux.  It's only Mac that is broken.


>> On Ubuntu, it spawns UNIX Alpine in an X Window.  I simply went to System ->

>> Preferences -> Preferred Applications -> Internet and change the "mail reader"

>> to be "alpine %s" (it was "evolution %s") and checked the "Run in terminal"

>> box.

> So does that save it to your IMAP mailbox sent mail?


If you have a sent mail mailbox set up, why wouldn't it?


> Even if it does, having multiple alpines running (on the same machine) is

> kind of weird IMHO.


Why?  I do it all the time, for the same reason that have multiple windows 
on their screen.


> Well, it sounds like Ubuntu or something else has *special code* to

> run a CLI app in an X window.


If that is the case, then Mac is the only system which doesn't have this 
"special code".


> You seem to just be on a rant against the Mac.


No, it's against crappy products.

Linux GUIs were crap once upon a time and I refused to use them.  The 
world has changed and Ubuntu is quite usable.

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