Re: Looking for a maildir mail reader for locally reading my mails under Windows

J.O. Aho

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Nov 10, 2011, 4:32:00 PM11/10/11

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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

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Castor Nageur

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Nov 11, 2011, 9:10:46 AM11/11/11

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On 10 nov, 22:32, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:

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

Thank you, I will ask them if there is a Windows port.

Castor Nageur

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Nov 11, 2011, 9:13:10 AM11/11/11

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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 :-(

Rob Brown

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Nov 11, 2011, 3:51:54 PM11/11/11

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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.

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Castor Nageur

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Nov 13, 2011, 5:10:43 PM11/13/11

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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 ;-)

J.O. Aho

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Nov 14, 2011, 12:49:16 AM11/14/11

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

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Castor Nageur

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Nov 14, 2011, 10:44:33 AM11/14/11

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On 14 nov, 06:49, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:

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

;-)

Castor Nageur

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Nov 16, 2011, 3:32:08 AM11/16/11

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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 finally installed an Ubuntu virtual machine over W7, ran a Samba
daemon to share my W7 maildirs (I synchronize my IMAP gmail folders
with the Cygwin version of offlineimap running continuously as a W7
service).

From Ubuntu, I run Evolution which is the default Ubuntu mail reader :
it has a nice and ergonomic GUI and perfectly loaded all my maildir's
accounts.