Re: [orca-list] thunderbird getting bad to worst, is evolution a good choice?

[krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

On 10/04/2012, Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi krishnakant,
>
> On 4/10/2012 2:37 AM, krishnakant Mane wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am really confused.
> > I am sure that I must be doing some thing wrong here.
> > I type alpine and after some time it does ask for a password.
> > after that it only keeps saying "/ \" or "___".
>
> You have to give Alpine some time to scan your mail directories. If they
> are very full or on a remote machine it can take a while. About the only
> way to resolve this issue is to pop messages with Fetchmail to a local
> directory which will scan faster.

But isn't pop unrecommended these days?
I guess with pop the entire inbox will become huge enough for alpine
to clutter, isn't it?
I have 21000 emails in my regular inbox right now, many with attachments.
I wish I could take my inbox file from thunderbird and give it to
alpine, but I did not fine a way to do so.

Any ways I like to have my inbox on my machine so I can search for
mails off line any time, so perhaps imap will not help here.
> further more, I never understood the suspence behind composing an
> > email from alpine.
> > what if I wish to cancel the sending of email?
> > It never works with me.
> > I only went pass pressing ctrl + x and it asks me if I wish to send
> > "y, yes, n, no and c, cancel " I type n and enter.
> > I am back in the compose area and can't find a way to get out of it..
>
> Cancel means just that. When you press control+x y tells Alpine to send
> the message, n tells Alpine to continue composing the message, and c
> cancels the message and brings you back to your inbox.
I see, that solves the confusion.  I will give it a try once I have my
inbox in place.
> > I think alpine needs a lot of practice, because checking the help is
> > not really helping.
> > Or may be given my large inbox, i must wait for an hour at least to
> > get all the emails downloaded?
>
> Well, if you are using imap Alpine doesn't download your messages. It
> just scans the directory on the mail server and displays a list of
> messages available there. However, as explained earlier part could be
> your connection and part could be the size of your inbox directory.
So are there ways in which I can have imap physically download my
emails, even better which ever I need?
I am just wondering how exactly imap functions.

> > As a side note, I herd that alpine is no longer supported.  Is this an
> > advantage or disadvantage I can't say,
> > one advantage is that given all the features of alpine are good enough
> > for use and are accessible, we have a stable software for long long
> > time to come.
> > but disadvantage is that if we have a bug which I am sure we have,
> > there will be no one to fix it.
> > What do you all think?
>
> Remember we are talking about open source here. If Alpine were a
> commercial piece of software the lack of continued development/support
> might worry me, but as long as we can get access to the source someone
> can maintain it, fix it, and update it as necessary.
Agreed, and after reading this thread, I feel quite a few of us are
using alpine and have no problems with it.
Just wondering if I go for fetchmail, is it really difficult to setup?
And what is the actually different between procmail and fetchmail?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
> > In any case I will configure mutt and try my hand at it.
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.