Questions tagged [alpine-mail]
For questions about Alpine, a free software email client developed at the University of Washington, Note that the [alpine-linux] Distro has a different tag.
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How do I integrate GPG with alpine?
I have tried a couple of howtos, but they seem to either be too out of date or just plain don't work (don't work for me, at least).
How do I sign and encrypt messages, as well as check integrity of ...
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How to read All Mail on IMAP Gmail with the Alpine / Pine e-mail client?
How is the "Incoming-Folders Collection" made to include the "all mail" IMAP folder?
Currently, the ".pinerc" has the inbox as:
# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={...
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What is X-Google-Original-From used for?
In connection with:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/763097/101935
I am looking to understand what the use and purpose of X-Google-Original-From actually is.
From what I see, I think I've managed to ...
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Alpine email client does not sort alphabetically
How can I get the Alpine email client to correctly sort From? I am using Alpine v2.21 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server. When I attempt to do so for a folder by typing the '$' key and selecting 'F' for 'From'...
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How can I use vim editor to write email in Alpine email program?
I am using the classic CLI Alpine email program, which by default uses the Pico editor for composing emails. Is there any way to use vim as editor?
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How to read a public inbox archive in Thunderbird / Alpine?
I would like to read an archive of one mailing list located at https://lore.kernel.org/. It appears they use something called a "public-inbox" format, based on git. Unfortunately, trying to ...
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How do I configure Alpine to use Azure Active Directory as a Directory?
I would like to use my company's Azure Active Directory to look up email addresses when composing messages in Alpine. However, I did not find any instructions on how to configure these settings:
ldap-...
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How can I prevent Alpine from writing duplicate messages in my Default Fcc folder?
I have configured my Default Fcc setting like this:
Default Fcc (File carbon copy) = {outlook.office365.com/ssl/[email protected]/auth=xoauth2}Sent Items
When I send a message, a duplicate always ...
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How to configure Alpine to use an already running Emacs as an alternate editor?
I have activated in Alpine email client the following setting in order to use Emacs as an editor when composing emails:
[X] Enable Alternate Editor Implicitly
Editor = emacsclientw.exe -ca runemacs....
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Letting IMAP server know that Alpine is fine with UTF-8
I am using Alpine with a local IMAP server. For some messages, I get the following "advisory message" in Alpine:
***********************************************************
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Is there any way to remove or somehow avoid line breaks in alpine mail client
So i have this really old machine from which i have to send a table(manually) with more than 76 characters in each line.
Alpine does not allow it to be more than 76 and makes a new line
this table
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Alpine: Incomplete maildomain
How do I set the maildomain for Alpine?
(I'm on CentOS 7.)
It gives me this error and beeps at me twice when starting.
[Incomplete maildomain "fsphub".]
[Return address in mail you send may be ...
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How can I filter email messages in Alpine v2.03 email client?
In my school, our web admin gave us a text-based email client to manage our inbox. This client is called Alpine. Its productive version is 2.03.
We have a lot of spam in our inbox, but I cannot ask ...
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Alpine - sync sent mail
My mail client can sync sent mail, independent of method used to send email (iphone, mail client, browser). But I'm finding that Alpine is only saving my sent mail that is sent using Alpine. How do I ...
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Hide deleted mails in alpine
The mail server I've been using for the last few years had a reasonable web interface that was shutdown last week. This forced me to essentially switch to using ssh+alpine.
All in all, I found the ...
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How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?
How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?
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IF block statement in inside an execlineb script
I have a Docker Container based on Alpine which runs S6 Overlay to manage two services inside it (a music DB, and a web interface to manage it). The problem is that the second service is optional, and ...
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Folder configuration of gmail with alpine
I'm using my Google account with Alpine. I only appear to have the "Inbox" folder - I haven't got "Trash", "Drafts", "Sent Mail" or "All Mails". Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
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Edit email Header from CLI
I am trying to find a cli bincode to allow me to manipulate email headers from an IMAP server.
Something like Alpine, but with header editing functionality, like subjects.
Thanks!
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How can I mark a message as new in Alpine?
While looking at a list of emails in Alpine, I inadvertently entered a message I wished to save for later reading. The "N" marking the message as new disappeared, of course. I'd like to mark it new ...
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Is it possible to backward search through the `Alpine` inbox?
I am using Alpine (formerly Pine) for email. I can search for words in the inbox using w and the keyword. However this searches from the oldest to the newest items which is not always efficient when ...
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Advanced imap search with alpine?
I am using alpine since a few days and I am very happy with the IMAP functionality and the terrific speed. The only frustration is that the W search (whereis) isn't as powerful (and probably not meant ...
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Viewing inbox of two different accounts in same folder using alpine
I have two accounts configured with alpine. In the folder list these accounts are treated as separate and when I want to check mail, I need to go in the Inbox of each account separately.
Is there a ...
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Alpine indexing for long time
I have alpine 2.0 installed and a gmail IMAP mailbox configured.
Every time I open alpine it starts to index and sort the mailbox which takes around 1 minute.
Also whenever I perform search using ...
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How to prevent alpine from asking to move read messages?
I teach 4 classes in the university and use pine as mail reader.
I have one folder for each class and for stuff like administration, computing, bureaucracy etc. and leave unresolved stuff in the ...
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Can I backup my IMAP Gmail account locally using only Alpine?
I recently discovered cli email clients and have fallen in love with their speed and simplicity. After playing around with mutt and alpine I decided I favor alpine. I am a Gmail IMAP user and have ...
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Mail disappears in other clients after using alpine
The scenario:
I have an email account on a server that I also have ssh access to. Normally I check this account via IMAP in Thunderbird (currently 3.0.8 on Ubuntu) and IMAP on my phone (Nexus One, ...
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DKIM only filters from pine, not php mail
I've setup DKIM filters by following the steps on this page:
http://blog.mixu.net/2009/11/03/setting-up-spf-senderid-and-dkim-on-centos-5-3-using-sendmail/
I've verified that DKIM Signature headers ...
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Access Exchange global address list using pine (alpine) or other email clients
How can I access an Exchange server's global address list using a mail client of my choice (preferable pine/alpine)?
In the past, if I knew what the LDAP server and the associated settings were for ...
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pop3 hotmail settings for Alpine email program?
I have searched the web for the correct settings to be able to access my hotmail with Alpine email client - it is a program you use from the terminal (i am using Linux). So far I have no success. I ...
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deleting gmail messages from alpine
I am using gmail as my email server and alpine 2.02 as my email client. Gmail has a rather non-standard IMAP setup and consequently, in order to delete a message (rather than archive it), one must "...
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Using IMAP with Pine (Alpine)
Is it possible to use IMAP when using Pine?
I'm looking to sync up my Gmail account for easy emailing and wanted to know if it was something that Pine can handle.
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Only show last X messages in Alpine
I am using Alpine for my email - I have it connected to Gmail and it works great. However I'd like to avoid having the whole list of messages in the inbox (there are thousands), because I think it ...
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Sending emails in Pine (Alpine) with underline, emphasis
I would like to send emails via Pine (Alpine) but with correct style usage, for instance, underlining book names, etc. How can I create emails in Pine using underline, emphasis, etc. (This can include ...
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POP EMail with Alpine (Pine)
Over the years I used Pine off and on, especially i college
How can I setup Pine to POP down my mail so it is local on my machine? I dont like storing my mail on a server someplace, I like to have it ...
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How do I disable the monthly asking for saving sent-mail in Alpine?
Alpine always bugs me with its special offer of saving my sent mail monthly to a folder named like sent-mail-monthname-year. I want to not have this offer! I have other solutions for organizing my old ...