Castor Nageur wrote:
> On 9 nov, 19:24, Joe Zeff<the.guy.with.the.sidebu...@lasfs.info>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:10:02 -0800, Castor Nageur wrote:
>>> I am now looking for a graphical mail reader that can directly read my
>>> maildir directory.
>>> If possible, I would like to avoid running an IMAP server for locally
>>> reading my emails.

>> And why, pray tell, do you think that a newsgroup dedicated to the program
>> sendmail is an appropriate place to ask?

> People using sendmail generally generally know mail readers.
> I just expected a program name and not a detailed answer.
> In facts, I searched in the comp.mail.* forums but did not find a
> really appropriated forum for my question.

> comp.mail.pine for all your questions about alpine

> comp.mail.pine for all your questions about alpine

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 at 06:13 -0800, Castor Nageur wrote:
> On 10 nov, 22:32, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:

>> comp.mail.pine for all your questions about alpine

> There is a Windows port but it is only text-based so it does not
> suit to my users :-(

> I think you can do everything you want in Alpine just using the mouse.
> That is what my wife does, so probably your users can too.

Castor Nageur wrote:
> On 11 nov, 21:51, Rob Brown<mylastn...@gmcl.com>  wrote:

>> I think you can do everything you want in Alpine just using the mouse.
>> That is what my wife does, so probably your users can too.

> I just downloaded/installed and it seems easy to use like you said.
> The only problem is you have to patch the sources to get the maildir
> support.
> ... and the patch seems to be only available for Unix.
> I do not know why maildir seems to hate Windows ;-)

> Install Linux and use KDE3.5 with MS-look and I'm sure your users won't notice
> anything ;P

> I think you can do everything you want in Alpine just using the mouse.
> That is what my wife does, so probably your users can too.