CLI mail programs (Sylpheed Compatible)

[Bill Fink]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, sfalken@sfalken.2y.net wrote:

> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Charlie Watts wrote:
> 
> > 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........
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Excellent, the instructions work great   =]
> 
> thanks for the tip  =]

Yes, it's cool and defintely handy!

A few notes for others who might want to do this (variable info in <>):

    1.  I had to create a .mh_profile file containing the single line:

	Path: <Mail_Directory>			[usually Mail]

    2.  I use fetchmail to get my POP mail, so I left my inbox-path set as:

	inbox-path=/var/spool/mail/<Local_User_Name>

	Alternatively, if you want pine to directly access your POP server,
	specify the inbox-path as:

	inbox-path={<POP_Server>/pop3/user=<POP_Server_User_Name>}INBOX

    3.  As the referenced instructions indicate, change folder-collections
	from:

	folder-collections=<Mail_Directory>/[]

	to:

	folder-collections=#mh/[]

    4.  I had to change my read-message-folder to:

	read-message-folder=ReadMail

	This was necessary because my folder for read mail in sylpheed
	is ReadMail while the equivalent folder in pine was read-mail.

Once this is done, it is possible to use pine compatibly with sylpheed
(but not at the same time).

						-Thanks

						-Bill