-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/09 14:30, quoth Robert P. J. Day: > i've used pine/alpine email for years, but i figure it's time for a > change. should i be worried about just switching to thunderbird? > obviously, i want to retain my current inbox, mail folders, > addressbook and ... well, there's not really much more than that. > > any gotchas i should watch for? I just "bit the bullet" too. For years I was a loyal pine/alpine user, but now it's time to move on and I have successfully completed the switchover. In a conversion of this nature, there are paradigm shifts that are a part of the problem. i.e., you're not going to find the same functionality called the same thing in the different systems. The end result is that there are a few things that I can't do, but I did solve a lot of the problems, in fact almost all of them. And I also need to add that of all the people I know, no one uses email with more tricks and backflips than me. Part of the solution to getting TB to do exactly what I wanted was vis configuration, part via addons. In the end, it took a total of 15 addons plus many mods to prefs.js. Understanding how to get the functionality of alpine Roles out of TB was quite interesting. The single best thing I can advise is to spend time reading the TB forums over at http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php Also, I'm happy to help anyone with questions. As for all the stuff I needed to do to my system that was external to TB, the only real thing I had to worry about was setting up dovecot. I do run my own home server with sendmail and alpine was able to access my mail locally. TB can't do that. It has to access via IMAP. That wasn't bad, but OTOH, I have not done it for external access and so far I have not had the chance to figure out how to do that in a secure fashion. (A nice howto for that would be *very* nice. Overall, I highly recommend TB over alpine because frankly, I need to work with something that is properly supported. The TB community is prodigious. And if a client gives me a winbloze laptop to use on a trip, then TB will work there too. But you are right, I should give back and doc what I did. I'll look at it in the next few days on my own wiki. - -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko8BJgACgkQRIVy4fC+NyQ/VwCdHBBHjinoUQLkSDKdXXPEbDMW 108An1aHB3t88dF6nBb4Zrgglaz0KJZh =n5Np -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
