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31 October, 2007 05:43

I am using Alpine, which is Pine 5.0, a mail application for composing and receiving messages.  Pine was one of the first terminal applications I begun to enjoy using when moving into the Linux game.  Now, 11 years later, I am at it again.

I am a little rusty and needed a quick catch up session, when I found this site that did the trick: 

ALL ABOUT PINE®:
POP, IMAP, 
NNTP, & ESMTP CLIENT
FOR UNIX, WINDOWS, & 
MAC OS X

Using this resource, I was able to track down a ruby application to convert eml (outlook style, exported: fastmail, and yahoo) message files.  For the time being I am going to stick with mbox and will probably move over to maildir once the mail starts flowing.  The program, eml2mbox, can be found here.

I have to admit right off the bat, all that is of any web, or desktop mail application can not compete with the endorphins I get from using this long time friend fo mine. 

A year ago I was writing:

black Friday

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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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