[Alpine-info] Alpine - multiple accounts

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, James Freer wrote:


> [Using Linux Xubuntu 10.04 - Alpine 2.0]

>

> I've been learning Alpine and am unsure on a few things. I've googled 

> and read a load but still have a query or two. I wanted to use Alpine 

> for the speed (as i belong to a lot of mailing lists) which i regard as 

> it's strongpoint compared with graphical email clients [Thunderbird, 

> Evolution i find almost impossible to use these days]. I've set up 

> alpine with two AOL and two gmail email addresses (although i am shortly 

> to cease using gmail).



I'm like you.  I don't have a lot of time right now, but I'll just add to 
this discussion that fetchmail in combination with procmail has been 
working beautifully for me for the past couple of years.  fetchmail sends 
incoming messages to procmail which filters them into a variety of inboxes 
based on whatever criteria I specify.  Every list has its own inbox.

You have to learn to write procmail recipies to do this.  It isn't hard 
and I think it is well worth learning.  I think this is a good place to 
learn about procmail:

http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/

Now that I look at it again, it seems exceedingly long, but it must be 
possible to skim through it to get to the good parts because I know that I 
made it work without reading all of that.

Mike