[Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

[jason-alpine-info at shalott.net]

> You just tell Alpine the imap server and folder to use, same as with any 

> external mail server. Not the local path.


You can get the best of both worlds: using Dovecot to access your mail, 
but taking advantage of the fact that you're on the same local host and 
skipping the network connection and the authentication.  This is both the 
safest option and the most performant option (fastest startup times, 
fastest searching and sorting, etc), especially for very large maildirs.

The way that I achieve this is to set Rsh Path to a local script that 
calls the Dovecot IMAP backend:

 	% grep rsh-path ~/.pinerc
 	rsh-path=/usr/local/bin/pine-local-imap

 	% cat /usr/local/bin/pine-local-imap
 	#!/bin/sh
 	cd ${HOME}/Maildir/ || exit 1
 	exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap 2>/dev/null

Then set Inbox Path to "{localhost/novalidate-cert}INBOX", Folder 
Collection to "{localhost/novalidate-cert}[]", etc.  (And if you share 
with other, potentially non-local IMAP clients -- e.g., your phone -- set 
FCC, Postponed, etc to match their expectations, e.g. Default Fcc = 
"{localhost/novalidate-cert}Sent", etc.)


  -Jason