[Alpine-info] Re: Changing access provider

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:53:52 -0400, John G. Bennett wrote:


> Today, at 12:32pm, Beartooth wrote:

	[...] 

>> 	What I really want is to run both for a while, till I get

>> everything currently at the old provider shifted over. I also want to

>> set up an autoforward there -- or have the old provider do so, if I

>> can't.

>>

>> 	All advice & info welcome!

> 

> You can edit pinerc with any text editor (e.g., pico) to put in the

> correct addresses (back up the file before editing for safety).


	Ok, I did that -- on the machine I use least. Then I changed it, 
not by editing .pinerc, but using M > S > C from within Alpine, a method 
I find far less confusing.

	It has now sent a test message to the old local address and to my 
main one, and gotten replies back from them. So the easy part is OK.


> You can run different pinerc files and invoke them from the command

> line, or in Windows, from different shortcuts on your desktop. (See

> command line options in Alpine's help for the command line option to

> use).


	Wow -- a whole book's worth of stuff I hadn't realized was there. 
Among it all, I find this : 

  -p pinerc
      Uses the named file as the personal configuration file instead of
      ~/.pinerc or the default PINERC search sequence PC-Alpine uses.
      Alpinerc may be either a local file or a remote                	
configuration        folder.

	Let me see if I understand it. 

	Assuming I want to use mainly the new (Comcast) account, and only 
rarely the old (swva) one, I can simply rename the backup .pinerc to 
alpswv, and then "alpine -p alpswv" will put me into that -- right? Or if 
I were going to keep on using both, I could create a bash alias such as 
"alpswv" and use that as a command to save typing -- also right?

	I have one laptop, and one spare hard drive on one machine, with 
XP installed -- for the rare occasions, soon I hope to cease, on which I 
have to use that OS. I think I'll just put off changing PC-Alpine till I 
can do it once and for all -- or maybe abandon it along with all of XP.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.