Pine in Hoary

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:28:14PM +1100, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:13:51PM +0100, Martin Schmitz wrote:
> >
> >>If you refer to mutt then I have to say that it's not nearly as usable
> >>as other email clients including pine if you want to use IMAP.
> >
> >
> >What does Mutt have to do with IMAP? Surely that's the job of fetchmail,
> >although it is hackish too.
> 
> The advantage of IMAP is you store your email on the server. fetchmail 
> just treats IMAP servers like POP servers and sucks the messages down to 
> your local box, where you have to worry about backups and all those 
> other administrative headaches.

offlineimap helps.  It provides two way synchronization between an IMAP
server and local Maildirs.

Marius Gedminas
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