Re: [orca-list] thunderbird getting bad to worst, is evolution a good choice?

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi,

On 4/10/2012 12:07 AM, krishnakant Mane wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> So are the commands for mutt and alpine the same?

No, of course not. They are two completely different e-mail programs.

> Can I get the list of keyboard shortcuts for mutt somewhere?

Check the Mutt manual. I recall most of the hot keys are documented there.

> Secondly I found out that when using alpine, my inbox takes a lot of
> time to open.
> Is it due to imap being used instead of pop?

Probably. Imap sometimes takes a while, especially when grabbing a 
bunchof e-mails in your inbox on a remote server, so the length of time 
it takes to refresh your inbox is do to your internet connection and of 
course how many e-mails there is.

> Can some one give me details to put in my pinerc file for pop access in gmail?

You'll need to use a separate program like Fetchmail if you want to pop 
files off the gmail server to your local inbox for Alpine to read them 
as Alpine has no way to download files off a pop server itself. Alpine 
is primarily used for imap. However, I don't really see an advantage of 
using pop here as it will take just as long if not longer for Fetchmail 
to fetch your e-mails from the pop server as it would take for Alpine to 
just refresh the directory using imap.

> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.