[Alpine-info] Fwd: dovecot

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nathan wrote:

>

>>  so it cant just like on my home directory, it cant use just st it up

>>  as /home/user/mail where the dovecot files stored in right?

>

> If you're using the Alpine Maildir patch, Dovecot possibly uses a 

> different version of Maildir than that patch.


Dovecot uses maildir++, which the maildir patch understands; all you have 
to do is to configure Alpine to read a maildir.


> You'll simplify things greatly if you don't access the folders directly 

> with both programs.


I agree. Dovecot knows more about its folders than Alpine will ever know. 
I recommend to use dovecot for exclusive access in this case. However, I 
would consider to eliminate dovecot if it is not needed. If the purpose is 
reading e-mail with Alpine, the maildir patch is good enough for this 
purpose. In other words, one can solve the problem

MDA + Dovecot + Alpine

by using

MDA + Maildir Patch for Alpine

-- 
Eduardo
http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/