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Post 29
Moving from Alpine to Roundcube webmail
15-Apr-2010
If you are (like me) still stubborn using text-based interfaces
and you feel pushed to using "newer" technologies, this
post may be of your interest.
A while ago the IT department of the university announced
they would be ceasing support to Alpine, one of the most beloved
e-mail clients, see Linus' choice at
this
Lifehacker interview.
I was taught this fabulous application when I first came to university,
and now I am forced to no longer use it. Instead, Roundcube is
the candidate to replace it. Actually, Roundcube is more beautiful,
it uses drag-and-drop, etc... a piece of software for the masses,
but it still misses the enchanting interface of the console.
If anyone goes through the same situation, I have coded a helpful Perl snippet,
available here,
that takes Alpine's addressbook file and transforms it into a vCard format,
ready to be loaded into Roundcube. I hope this is of help to make the
transition process a little bit lighter :)
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