[wellylug] setting pine to use maildir

Nigel Roberts nigel at nobiscuit.com
Mon Sep 13 11:55:09 NZST 2004


What he really wants to do is switch to mutt. I did, and I've never
looked back. There's the usual bit of pain while you get used to a
slightly different way of doing things, but it's so much better once
that's over.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 at 11:37:04 +1200, David Antliff wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Simon . wrote:
> 
> > I recently upgraded postfix, and now it is using ~/maildir to put my new
> > mail into.
> > Previously I was using /var/mail/<user>
> >
> > I want to move to using maildir, but I dont know how to configure pine to
> > use it.
> > Does anyone know, or can point me in the right direction?
> 
> Pine doesn't support maildir out-of-the-box. You need to patch it. This
> suggests you're better off using courier and imapd'd stdin/stdout,
> whatever that means:
> 
> http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/resources/pine-maildir/
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
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