[Alpine-info] Dumb beginner's question

[David Morris]

I think there was a prior discussion sometime back on this or the pine
list of the notion of some tool which would make your system look like
a local mail server with a local mail spool. You'd configure alpine
to reference the local data for the inbox.

Don't recall any details.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Ole Jacobsen wrote:


> 

> Matt,

> 

> Yeah, I think the work-around is to select all, save them into a 

> folder (tmp-inbox, say) then let it grind, move into tmp-inbox and 

> process your mail there. That way, navigation will be much faster.

> 

> Ole

> 

> 

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> 

> 

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> 

> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Ole Jacobsen wrote:

> > >But: Suppose I have an inbox full of "important stuff". Is it possible 

> > >to tell alpine to get all the messages and their attachments BEFORE I 

> > >start reading them instead of that happening on a message by message 

> > >basis as I start from the top? The way it works now is painfully slow.

> > 

> > It seems like you want essentially a local copy of your email.

> > 

> > Alpine doesn't do that (at least not for IMAP).   (Long ago, I wished

> > for such a feature *optionally*, with the ability to blow away the local

> > cache at any time and never lose mail, since it'd still be on the server.)

> > 

> > You could select all then save to a local folder, or maybe alpine already

> > does what you want if you use POP (eww)..