On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote:
> Stefan Laudat wrote:
> > there are patches for pine Maildir access, please rtfm at www.qmail.org
> > I've tested that and worked a couple of months ago.
>
> I am working on this issue right now. What it's boiled down to has
> been my installing the courier-imap package with the intent of having
> Pine access that. I've patched pine's source code with Mattias
> Larsson's pine-maildir-4.33 patch; but couldn't figure out how to
> configure Pine to access the Maildirs (namely due to lack of
> documentation on Larsson's patch, and his site seems to be down as
> well). I would be interested to hear of the patch you used and the
> configuration adjustments you made to Pine.
> By the way, I must say that I do not care for mutt. The interface is
> rather dirty (I don't mean its aesthetics) and the configuration rather
> cryptic. Maybe I just didn't devote enough time to it? Anyways, it's
> not a viable option.
i use that same patch for pine 4.33. it appears to work much better than
whatever i was using before. something with pine 4.10 i think.
in pine's config i simply set inbox-path to the string: $MAIL
/etc/profile.d/qmail.sh exists to set $MAIL (and $MAILDROP) properly.
that profile file came with Bruce Guenter's qmail rpms
(http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/). typically $MAIL would look like:
/home/user/Maildir/ (with the trailing slash).
i've never used pine with imap, so i'm not sure how that works.
i never cared for mutt either, although i never spent a huge amount of
time trying to figure it out. my main issue with it is that i could never
get it to sort my inbox properly (just normal sorting - by arrival time -
how the files in the maildir are already sorted). it could be due to me
having tried old version of mutt.
-tcl.
