ease of alpine -> thunderbird migration?

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net>:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> obviously, i want to retain my current inbox, mail folders,
>
> I finally bit the bullet and figured out how to get dovecot
> setup and running on my box, so my folders are now all
> stored on an IMAP server, and I can switch mail clients
> at will or even access my home dovecot server remotely
> over an SSL connection, which has been kinda handy.
>
> I guess the next task I should tackle is LDAP for
> my address book...

   did you take notes?  is the recipe online somewhere?  if not,
i have a site with a wiki that would be happy to host your steps
in doing the above.

rday