Re: Maildir and Pine
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Robert Varga wrote:
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> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Technical Support wrote:
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> > > Ok I am liking maildir so far. What shell mua support maildir?
> > > I am used to pine, but I can learn. We don't offer shell but the request
> > > is there. Any new users will have to learn what I give them :)
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> > > TIA
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> > The debianized pine supports Maildirs. I suggest using 3.96-2 from the
> > slink cd. The 4.20 version was much slower and has less functionality as I
> > found.
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> > Robert Varga
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> Where can I grab the 4.20 version? And what changed that it isn't even
> distributed as sources in non-free as 3.96 is?
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There is no official maintainer for the package currently, that's why it
is not included. The unofficial debs can be found at debianpine.tripod.com
if I remember well. However it cannot handle maildir folders and mailbox
files simultaneously as 3.96. Improvements are listed in the changelog. I,
myself, prefer 3.96.
Robert Varga
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