Making Alpine work all the way with Maildir

Question

I'm converting a Linux machine over to using ~/Maildir/ instead of ~/mail/. One of the requirements is for Alpine to work with this new arrangement. Using the maildir patch at http://www.alpine.x10host.com/alpine/info/maildir.html, I've been able to get Alpine to read incoming mail from ~/Maildir, but it still won't read or save emails in that format. The best I was able to come up with is this in .pinerc:

folder-collections=~/Maildir/ ~/Maildir/[]

But this only results in messages being saved in mbox format in ~/Maildir.

Answer 1

This is the correct setting:

folder-collections="Anything you want" #mc/INBOX.[]

This suggestion is found near the bottom of the patch. Why it's not explained in the above webpage is a bit of a mystery.