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Description
Alpine is one of the oldest email clients in the world. It's a rewrite of the 'pine' mailclient, which originated from 1989. I still use it to read my email. Very safe to have a text based email client!
Configuration
The following options can be punt in .pinerc in your homefolder. To get your mail via IMAP:
inbox-path={imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=username@gmail.com}Include this to make sure you have access to all of the various gmail folders:
folder-collections=Gmail {imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=username@gmail.com}[]I find this useful to mimic "archiving":
default-saved-msg-folder=[Gmail]/All Mail
To send mail via gmail, you need this in .pinerc:
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/user=username@gmail.com
Also, I find that these two settings improve performance a lot:
rsh-open-timeout=0 disable-these-authenticators=GSSAPI
If you want alpine to remember your password for you, you can run this command in your home directory:
touch .pine-passfile
The first time you use alpine after running this command, you will be asked whether you want to save your password for later use each time you enter one.