[Alpine-info] formats for both Alpine and Thunderbird

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Andrew Morgan wrote:


> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

>

>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

>> 

>>> The recommended solution is to use another format for the folder. 

>>> Either mbx or mix do not have that problem.

>> 

>> Which mail formats can be used with both Alpine and Thunderbird?

>

> If you use Alpine and Thunderbird as an IMAP client, then the mail 

> format is irrelevant.

>


As a further thought along those lines, if you're willing to invest some 
time in it, it can be an educational experience setting up an IMAP server 
on your own machine.  Time commitment varies greatly depending on your O/S 
and/or distribution.  (e.g., under Gentoo Linux, I was able to install 
Dovecot with a single command and then configure it within a span of about 
20 minutes [with the admittedly big caveat that I'd gone through the 
process several times before].)  Same is true of installing an SMTP 
server (which can be very useful while travelling, for example).

Best,
Ben