CLI mail programs (Sylpheed Compatible)

[Charlie Watts]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Bill Fink wrote:

> On Mon Apr 29 2002, Shawn Dunn wrote:
>
> > Just curious, is there a CLI program out there that will play nice with
> > Sylpheed's mailbox format?  Pine won't, and I don't have mutt installed
> > as of yet to check, it would just be nice to SSH into this machine from
> > work, and check my mail that way........
>
> Hi Shawn,
>
> I think you should be able to use pine with sylpheed, albeit somewhat
> convoluted.  You could use pine (perhaps with fetchmail) to check your
> mail from work.  Then when you get home, you could use sylpheed's feature
> which allows you to import from a mailbox file to get all the pine messages
> you hadn't deleted from pine's mailbox, and dispose of them as desired
> (move to appropriate sylpheed folders).  Finally, you'd just have to
> clean up (remove) the pine mailbox.  Certainly not ideal but perhaps
> workable.

http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/email/remote/pine-mh.html

It looks like pine does support mh, you just preface the directory path
with a #.

Not sure, their installation could be patched.

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Charlie Watts
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