E-mail Problems
I seem to be on a posting spree lately, which is surprising since I'm practically not even reading other journals. Yet here's one where I ask LJ for help.
I have, for years, been a devotee of Pine. I like the software: it's quick, very good for a fast typist such as myself, and I'm very quick at saving messages with tab-complete.
Now MIT has upgraded their servers and I find myself using Alpine. Which is great, except that Alpine is compatible with a new IMAP requirement that requires UIDs for messages, which in turn means that when you save a message to that folder, Alpine has to go through *the entire folder* to check that UIDs are assigned correctly. As a result, saving an e-mail to a folder takes a very long time, and my e-mail time has slowed down substantially.
There are two fixes to this. I can either convert my mailboxes from Unix mbox format to either mbx or mix format, or I can switch to a new client such as Gmail. The problem with the former is that I don't know how to do it; with the latter that I don't know how to import my old mail, and would be more reliant on Gmail despite occasional downtime and poor customer service. Does anyone have any thoughts or advice?
I have, for years, been a devotee of Pine. I like the software: it's quick, very good for a fast typist such as myself, and I'm very quick at saving messages with tab-complete.
Now MIT has upgraded their servers and I find myself using Alpine. Which is great, except that Alpine is compatible with a new IMAP requirement that requires UIDs for messages, which in turn means that when you save a message to that folder, Alpine has to go through *the entire folder* to check that UIDs are assigned correctly. As a result, saving an e-mail to a folder takes a very long time, and my e-mail time has slowed down substantially.
There are two fixes to this. I can either convert my mailboxes from Unix mbox format to either mbx or mix format, or I can switch to a new client such as Gmail. The problem with the former is that I don't know how to do it; with the latter that I don't know how to import my old mail, and would be more reliant on Gmail despite occasional downtime and poor customer service. Does anyone have any thoughts or advice?