Alpine: linux version able to get mail?

#1 06-25-2008, 10:49 PM

Dumb question: Is Alpine able to retreive mail from multiple servers?

I have the idea from several years ago that one has to use an external
"getmail" for pine; pc-pine had to do its own get mail.

The reason I ask is that I am getting certification/authorization errors
from the school ms exhange server (think they did something as wasn't
needed "before"). I was able to get around the problem in linux by leaving
out the pop3 as in pop3.mail.school.edu; I get some warnings/errors but
it does/did work. Forgot, I am using fetchmail to get my mail from 2
places.

I used the "NoValidation-Cert" in pc-Alpine but that doesn't work with
fetchmail; the fetchmail man doesn't say how to get around/ignore the
validation certification.

#2 06-26-2008, 05:18 AM

nobody <annonymous@none.com> wrote:
> Dumb question: Is Alpine able to retreive mail from multiple servers?

Yes. I'm currently using Alpine with three IMAP servers and one POP3
server.

> I have the idea from several years ago that one has to use an external
> "getmail" for pine; pc-pine had to do its own get mail.

If you want everything in the same inbox you need getmail/fetchmail
but not if you're happy with having several inboxes.

> (snip)

HTH,
Niklaus

#3 06-26-2008, 12:02 PM

On 2008-06-26, Niklaus Kuehnis <kuehnik_0505@gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
> nobody <annonymous@none.com> wrote:
>> Dumb question: Is Alpine able to retreive mail from multiple servers?
>
> Yes. I'm currently using Alpine with three IMAP servers and one POP3
> server.
>
>> I have the idea from several years ago that one has to use an external
>> "getmail" for pine; pc-pine had to do its own get mail.
>
> If you want everything in the same inbox you need getmail/fetchmail
> but not if you're happy with having several inboxes.
>
>> (snip)
>
> HTH,
> Niklaus

Thanks very much. Now decissions, decissions..

#4 06-26-2008, 03:40 PM

On 26 Jun 2008 david read the comp.mail.pine post of Niklaus Kuehnis,
which stated...

> nobody <annonymous@none.com> wrote:
>> Dumb question: Is Alpine able to retreive mail from multiple servers?
>
> Yes. I'm currently using Alpine with three IMAP servers and one POP3
> server.
>
>> I have the idea from several years ago that one has to use an external
>> "getmail" for pine; pc-pine had to do its own get mail.
>
> If you want everything in the same inbox you need getmail/fetchmail
> but not if you're happy with having several inboxes.
>
>> (snip)
>
> HTH,
> Niklaus

Okay, I'd like to take the plunge too. I use PC-Alpine and have several
icons on my desktop, each using a different pinerc file. I would really
enjoy having Alpine and multiple inboxes... Can you please point me to a
website or whatever to get me started down this road? I'm not asking for
a tutorial here... just an idea of where to find a sample so I can work
with it.
thanks,
--
_____
david

#5 06-26-2008, 04:55 PM

david <david@somewherebutwhocares.net> wrote:
> Okay, I'd like to take the plunge too. I use PC-Alpine and have several
> icons on my desktop, each using a different pinerc file. I would really
> enjoy having Alpine and multiple inboxes... Can you please point me to a
> website or whatever to get me started down this road? I'm not asking for
> a tutorial here... just an idea of where to find a sample so I can work
> with it.
> thanks,

I only know Linux Alpine but PC-Alpine is probably very similar.

For multiple inboxes use
[X] enable-incoming-folders. See
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/p...oming-folders/

For POP3, IMO a maildrop works best. See
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/p...rop/index.html
Set the destination server to <empty value> to save mail on the local machine.
I use a custom file in my (Linux) home directory as inbox.

HTH,
Niklaus

#6 06-27-2008, 07:35 AM

On 26 Jun 2008 david read the comp.mail.pine post of Niklaus Kuehnis,
which stated...

>
> For multiple inboxes use
> [X] enable-incoming-folders. See
> http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/p...ions/incoming-
> folders/
>
> For POP3, IMO a maildrop works best. See
> http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/p...rop/index.html
> Set the destination server to <empty value> to save mail on the local
> machine. I use a custom file in my (Linux) home directory as inbox.
>
> HTH,
> Niklaus
>

Thanks! this is just the start I needed to make this work. Much
appreciated.
david

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