[Alpine-info] Dumb beginner's question

[Eduardo Chappa]

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.


Yes, you have to set up a maildrop. This makes Alpine transfer messages 
from the remote server to a local mailbox. When you read it directly 
locally it will seem fast. 

I have information on how to set up a maildrop in my web page at

http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/alpine-info/maildrop/index.html

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/