On 9/23/19 8:36 PM, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:> Thunderbird is an absolute pig, taking hours to load my Dovecot IMAP. > Claws-mail is good, but I have some problems with it. Alpine appears > not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into IMAP. Same with > the rest I've tried.Wha...? Alpine/Pine have implemented IMAP for decades; that was one of the first IMAP implementations to see widespread use. In what way does it appear to "not be ready for prime time"? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:39:31 -0400 Dave McGuire via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:> On 9/23/19 8:36 PM, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote: > > Thunderbird is an absolute pig, taking hours to load my Dovecot > > IMAP. Claws-mail is good, but I have some problems with it. Alpine > > appears not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into > > IMAP. Same with the rest I've tried. > > Wha...? Alpine/Pine have implemented IMAP for decades; that was one > of the first IMAP implementations to see widespread use. In what way > does it appear to "not be ready for prime time"?They only see some of the folders. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:19 PM Steve Litt via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote> > They only see some of the folders.Are they subscribed?>-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20190924/7a4f8fe3/attachment.html>
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Dave McGuire wrote:> On 9/23/19 8:36 PM, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote: >> Alpine appears not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into >> IMAP. > > Wha...? Alpine/Pine have implemented IMAP for decades; that was one > of the first IMAP implementations to see widespread use.Not surprising, as both the RFC for IMAP and Pine are creations of the same person (Mark Crispin, RIP). Both have evolved considerably, though, but as a regular user of (al)pine, I get by just fine. It's sort of like Emacs -- lots of cryptic keypresses, but once you amortize the time to learn them, you can mulch through mail fairly quickly. Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
On Sep 25, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:> you can mulch through mail fairly quickly.Now there is a good image! I?m probably going to steal that. Mulch is a word that need more use. -- I WILL NOT YELL "FIRE" IN A CROWDED CLASSROOM Bart chalkboard Ep. 7G01