[Alpine-info] Problems with Alpine/Parallels/MacOS, please help

[UMR IBIMA Sekretariat]

I hope to obtain advice, using Alpine in a Parallels virtual machine, running MacOS inside MacOS.

All software versions are the most recent ones; fresh installations as of June 2023.



   - MacOS runs in a virtual machine (VM) using Parallels desktop on MacOS (MacOS is also the host system)

   - Alpine is running in the VM

   - Configuration/sent mails/received mails of Alpine should be stored in the host system. For this a shared network folder was created in the host system and connected to the VM.

   - Files and folders like ".pinerc" and "mail" should be a symlink to the shared network folder.



Example:

   - Mounted network folder is "/Volumes/HostShared"

   - "/home/username/.pinerc" is symlink to "/Volumes/HostShared/Alpine/.pinerc"

   - "/home/username/mail" is symlink to "/Volumes/HostShared/Alpine/mail"

   - other files/folders belonging to Alpine are symlinked as just mentioned.



Problems discovered during testing:

   - Alpine takes a long time trying to save sent messages and then fails.

   - Alpine refuses to write to .pinerc as it is not located in the home directory.

   - Yet if files are manually copied to the network folder (by using the symlinks) everything goes fast and as expected.



Q.: What could be done to make Alpine work?

Thanks a lot in advance!

A. Brauer
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