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from alpine (PINE) to evolution mail

20 February, 2008 15:41

I have been using Pine joyously for the past few months, until today when I switched over to Evolution.

It was not my intention to do so.  I was having difficulty using GnuPG to encrypt outgoing mail.  I could sign the messages just fine, but I ended up spending an enormous amount of time trying to encrypt to recipients.  I wanted to run a couple tests.

That's when it happened.  Evolution started it's wizard and I was faced with the option of importing my mail and contacts from pine into Evolution mail.

I have had my off and on streaks with Evolution, and I never stayed a dedicated end user for very long.  However, allowing myself an SSH TightVNC tunnel sparked my intention to give it a shot.

It did as it said it would.  About 35,000 messages (5 1/2 years archive) and a couple hundred contacts conversions, I was in a position to use it as my full fledged e-mail client from the start.

I would have never thought, not a one to one synapse connection, that I would be able to import my MBOX style archives into a full fledged productivity suite.  So their it be, Evolution Mail imports PINE stored mail and contact information.  Wowsers.

It has come a long way since I last had a look at it.  PGP works as it should, and I am confronted with various features that I could have taken advantage of the past several months.

I do not regret it one bit, swithing to Alpine.  Pine was my first e-mail client, and it was a beautiful re-association. 

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Main Entry: spew
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spIwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein intransitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to come forth in a flood or gush
3 : to ooze out as if under pressure : EXUDE transitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to send or cast forth with vigor or violence or in great quantity -- often used with out - spew-er noun
-- Merriam-Webster

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