I hope to obtain advice, using Alpine in a Parallels virtual machine, running MacOS inside MacOS.
All software versions are the most recent ones; fresh installations as of June 2023. - MacOS runs in a virtual machine (VM) using Parallels desktop on MacOS (MacOS is also the host system) - Alpine is running in the VM - Configuration/sent mails/received mails of Alpine should be stored in the host system. For this a shared network folder was created in the host system and connected to the VM. - Files and folders like ".pinerc" and "mail" should be a symlink to the shared network folder. Example: - Mounted network folder is "/Volumes/HostShared" - "/home/username/.pinerc" is symlink to "/Volumes/HostShared/Alpine/.pinerc" - "/home/username/mail" is symlink to "/Volumes/HostShared/Alpine/mail" - other files/folders belonging to Alpine are symlinked as just mentioned. Problems discovered during testing: - Alpine takes a long time trying to save sent messages and then fails. - Alpine refuses to write to .pinerc as it is not located in the home directory. - Yet if files are manually copied to the network folder (by using the symlinks) everything goes fast and as expected. Q.: What could be done to make Alpine work? Thanks a lot in advance! A. Brauer
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