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    From Roderick@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 12 23:12:56 2021
    My previous question may sound strange. Well, the directory ~/mail may be important to keep the folder with copies of mail sent, but very
    seldon I read mails there. For reading local folders I always
    used BSD mail.

    Since I use pine/alpine, perhaps 23 years, it is only for reading
    remote folders. I like it very much and do not know a better alternative:
    it does not download all messages, but only what one wants to read,
    and if one reads a message, it downloads an attachment only when one
    wants it. And this is in my oppinion the big advantage of imap.

    Other mail clients seem to download all mails and perhaps synchronize
    remote with local. That is other approach, not so interesting for me.
    Can alpine also do that?

    Rodrigo

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  • From Roderick@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 12 22:56:07 2021
    alpine creates a directory mail with folders "Drafts", "sent-mail", etc.

    Are this normal mailboxes that I can read and precess with BSD mail?

    Namely with "mail -f ~/mail/sent-mail" ?

    Or are there compatibility problems if I delete some messages?

    Thanks
    Rodrigo

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Roderick on Fri Mar 12 19:15:58 2021
    On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Roderick wrote:

    alpine creates a directory mail with folders "Drafts", "sent-mail", etc.

    Are this normal mailboxes that I can read and precess with BSD mail?

    Namely with "mail -f ~/mail/sent-mail" ?

    Or are there compatibility problems if I delete some messages?

    There should not be any issue processing these folders with other
    programs. The default format for folders in Alpine is the unix format,
    which is the same as the one supported by the mail program, however, the
    mail program will find a first meta message in your folders, that while it
    is there, it is not displayed by Alpine, but displayed by other programs.

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Roderick on Fri Mar 12 19:18:35 2021
    On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Roderick wrote:

    Other mail clients seem to download all mails and perhaps synchronize
    remote with local. That is other approach, not so interesting for me.
    Can alpine also do that?

    No, Alpine does not offer an offline reading mode, all operations are
    online.

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