Maildir in Thunderbird?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:13:58 +0000 (UTC), thufir wrote:
>On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:07:22 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
>> No personal experience and since its latest changes I'm looking to
>> move away from Thunderbird.
>
>I like alpine, formerly pine, but since it doesn't store files locally 
>(pros and cons to that) it really needs to be paired with something
>like http://offlineimap.org/ to cache gmail, or perhaps postfix.
>
>I haven't done it yet, but it seems definitely worthwhile.

The needs of somebody used to Thunderbird, a GUI based app and somebody
who likes Alpin, a terminal based app, most likely are far apart from
each other, regarding Alpin, IMAP vs POP accounts might not be the crux.