Posted by Krux on Monday March 15, 2010 @ 07:59pm
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Well why didn't you say so? Remember that my only experience in using my old thcnet account in new ways was the folder migration from pine to Squirrelmail a few years back and that didn't go very smoothly.

I guess I'll check into it then.

One thing to keep in mind is that the way pine expects maildir folders to be named, and the way imap expects maildir folders to be named is different.

Pine stores folders like so:

~/Maildir
~/Maildir/subfolder_1
~/Maildir/subfolder_2
~/Maildir/subfolder_3
~/Maildir/subfolder_etc

However imap expects folders to be named like so:

~/Maildir
~/Maildir/.mail.subfolder_1
~/Maildir/.mail.subfolder_2
~/Maildir/.mail.subfolder_3
~/Maildir/.mail.subfolder_etc

So if you create a folder with pine, you have to ssh into the server, switch into your Maildir folder, move the new folder to one called .mail.foldername so you can see it in imap, and then create a symbolic link to that folder to one in the format pine expects.

I should update the source to either pine or dovecot so that they both expect the same thing, but then any time there is an update I'll have to remember to patch the code, which would be a pain in the ass. dovecot gets updates fairly often.. not as often for pine (Alpine actually)

Posted by voltaic on Sunday March 21, 2010 @ 07:27pm
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Thanks but I haven't used pine in years, except in the very rare scenario that: 1) I have SSH available (aka I'm at home) and 2) web mail is down.

As long as a phone IMAP client can read the current mailboxes, whichever format they are, then I'm good to go.