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Alpine is a text-based email client, an open source rewrite of Pine

Alpine is a text-based email client, an open source rewrite of Pine.

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How can I customize new mail notification in alpine?

I use alpine as my primary mail reader. While I spend most of my day in the terminal or Emacs, it would still be nice to get pretty notification of new mail using notify-bin. Is there any way I can configure alpine to run a custom command when new…
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How do I setup Alpine to connect my Gmail account using IMAP?

I am using FreeBSD 8.1 and just installed Alpine email client. I wonder if anybody knows how to setup Alpine to get mail from a Gmail account using IMAP.
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alpine refuses to save imap password

I have compiled alpine 2.20 with option --with-passfile=/home/fuji/.alpine.pwd and when I type the imap password of gmail, I get my mails but when it comes to save the password, i get the following debug messages: 14:05:34.653790 Looking for…
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How do I set up alpine to read local Unix generated mail

Linux delivers mail to home directory: /home/linker/Maildir under which are 3 directories new, cur, tmp. When I type mail I get mail: /home/linker/Maildir/: Is a directory, which is not useful. I have installed alpine but can't get it access the…
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pine (Alpine) with GMail 2-step Authentication enabled?

I always get a message: IMAP Authentication canceled And then: Retrying plain authentication after [ALERT] application-specific When I look at my google security settings I can't find any option to create an application specific password to…
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GNU screen color and pine

I use GNU screen to run pine mail reader. I use external aspell to do spellchecking for the e-mails I sent. The problem is that when aspell finishes, pine restores the old content of the terminal, but the color is all wrong. The font becomes white…
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How do I delay/schedule sending a message in alpine (/realpine/pine)?

I want to send out my email(s) on Monday morning, not now. Is there a plugin / modification (or feature) for alpine to let me schedule when a message gets sent? I use an smtp service on my campus. If (re)(al)pine can't do what I want, would there be…
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How do I cancel an operation in alpine email client?

Occasionally when I'm doing something in alpine, I'll forget and do the wrong thing (like open up my gmail folder when I meant to open my other IMAP account). Then I have to wait for a few seconds for everything to finish. I want to be able to…
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how to install alpine on CentOS with Yum?

How do I update/refresh or add repos to Yum to install the alpine mail client? thufir@arrakis:~ $ thufir@arrakis:~ $ ll /etc/yum.repos.d/ total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2139 Sep 28 2013 CentOS-Base.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 718 May 31 2013…
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How to force use SMTP servers in Alpine?

Does anybody know how to force Alpine to use a particular SMTP server from the config list? It seems to choose the first server in the SMTP list in config, but I want to be able to choose the SMTP server per message. I tried using different SMTP…
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Using Evince instead of Okular for Alpine (MIME configuration for PDF viewers)

Within Alpine, if I hit enter on a PDF attachment, my system brings up Okular. I would prefer if it brought up Evince, because that's the PDF viewer I normally use. How can I do that? This is clearly a MIME issue, but I'm not sure how to…
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Alpine using localhost address

I'm having a hard time figuring out what's going on with my setup, first there's no problem with the imap part as I can see my email, but when I try to send a message I get this error: [Mail not sent. Sending error: 501 Syntax error in parameters or…
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How can I hide the command list in Alpine?

I run Alpine across SSH on my phone which has a fairly limited screen size. The only issue that I have is the command list at the bottom takes up valuable screen real estate. Is there any way that I can turn the command list off (or toggle it)? * I…
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How to move Alpine mail on a different machine on Ubuntu?

I have to move my Alpine account/mail/address book from an old pc to a newer one. I'm searching through the documentation and can't find useful informations about this. As Alpine is installed to the second pc, copying the /home/old_username/mail…
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how to configure alpine to list all remote IMAP folders together?

This may be tangential to gmail usage; I registered a domain with gandi.net and want to access that e-mail with IMAP. While I can edit this directly from .pinerc I cannot find this setting through M S C to see the configuration file in alpine: #…
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