ease of alpine -> thunderbird migration?

[Bill Davidsen]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
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> On 06/19/09 14:30, quoth Robert P. J. Day:
>>   i've used pine/alpine email for years, but i figure it's time for a
>> change.  should i be worried about just switching to thunderbird?
>> obviously, i want to retain my current inbox, mail folders,
>> addressbook and ... well, there's not really much more than that.
>>
>>   any gotchas i should watch for?
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> I just "bit the bullet" too. For years I was a loyal pine/alpine user, but now
> it's time to move on and I have successfully completed the switchover. In a
> conversion of this nature, there are paradigm shifts that are a part of the
> problem. i.e., you're not going to find the same functionality called the same
> thing in the different systems.
> 
> The end result is that there are a few things that I can't do, but I did solve
> a lot of the problems, in fact almost all of them. And I also need to add that
> of all the people I know, no one uses email with more tricks and backflips
> than me.
> 
> Part of the solution to getting TB to do exactly what I wanted was vis
> configuration, part via addons. In the end, it took a total of 15 addons plus
> many mods to prefs.js. Understanding how to get the functionality of alpine
> Roles out of TB was quite interesting.
> 
I still use alpine for root, it's dumb enough to avoid virtually any evil which 
might come through mail. And I use Seamonkey for mail/news/rss (need beta for 
rss) because it has all the profiles, accounts, threading, watched threads, 
custom view and such I could want. I run minimal add-ons, mainly one to compress 
quoted text to a single line.

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