Timo Kuhn is delighted about how well Apple Mail is working with domain hosting for his email at Gmail. He gets to marry his love for Apple Mail with the fact that he doesn’t always have his PowerBook with him. It all works so well that he asks, “Who needs IMAP?”.

Arieanna hasn’t had such a good experience with Apple Mail and Gmail. Needs some spam filtering for her blog too.

snarfed.org points out what’s good, bad and ugly about Gmail compared to pine in a thoughtful post by a Google employee (which reminds me, a new version of MacPine (4.64) was released not long ago).gmail, Google, mail.app, apple mail, pine, IMAP

• Paul Heinlein has updated his collection of tips on building and running pine under Mac OS X.
• Paul Stamatiou has written a guide to installing RoundCube on your server. RoundCube is a webmail client with a Mail.app look.
• Apple has published a technote that advises you to “avoid using spaces and the commercial at symbol (“@”) in passwords of iCal calendars that are published to an iDisk or a WebDAV server.” You need to use only letters and numbers.
• Steve Gio joins the select few who are turning their backs on Gmail. He is returning to Mail.app as his main client. Why? Gmail offers no useable way to access email when offline.
• Chris Marsden says some nice things about Hawk Wings (ta very much), where he discovered Peter Maurer and his software. Raves about Witch, Textpander, et al. follow.
• In the Apple Mail Discussions, Tenacious MC wonders why Mail.app “seems to write to com.apple.Safari.plist for some odd reason”. So do I.

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Ever wondered why you don’t use mutt or pine to do email, even though it is very hip and a howto is only a click away?

A tip on macOSXHints about integrating mutt or pine with Address Book reminds you.

Addressbook2pine is a freeware app that converts Address Book contacts into the tab delimited .addressbook format used by pine.

During the conversion Address Book’s fields are mapped into the pine addressbook as follows:

It can also convert the other way, importing contacts from pine’s addressbook into OS X’s Address Book.

The app’s preference pane contains a number of options that make the process more flexible. For example you can customize the way nicknames are handled or how email IDs are applied:

The app is freeware although the author accepts donations and is available from the developer’s web site.