From: Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
How well does Pine/Alpine work with IMAP, specifically, leaving all messages on the IMAP server and simply using the email client as a window into the IMAP?
I don't know. One of my family uses POP. To a local server, so security doesn't matter. I still have to inject a cert into Thunderbird (since it is self-signed) once a year. Another one uses fetchmail through an SSH tunnel. I assume IMAP would be better but I haven't needed to figure that out. I kind of recollect that both Pine and IMAP came out of University of Washington, from the late Mark Crispin (I'm to busy/lazy to check). So they ought to interoperated. I glance at the alpine users mailing list. A fair bit of the trafic is about IMAP authentication: GMAIL seems to have changed how that works (OMAP2, I think). People do struggle but have solutions.