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== Using Calmail/IMAP with alpine ==
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=== Setting up Calmail IMAP server with pine/alpine ===
  
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For machines in the Math Department, edit the ''inbox-path'' option in the ''.pinerc'' file in your home directory (''username'' should be substituted with your actual user name on the Math systems):
  
For machines in the Math Department, edit your .pinerc file with the following changes. (username should be substituted with your actual user name on the Math systems.
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inbox-path={calmail.berkeley.edu/user=username@math.berkeley.edu/tls/novalidate-cert}INBOX
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=== Setting up outgoing SMTP server ===
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For office and home machines, you'll also need the following change:
  
 
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    inbox-path={calmail.berkeley.edu.edu/user=username@math.berkeley.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX
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smtp-server=calmail.berkeley.edu:587/tls/user=username@math.berkeley.edu/novalidate-cert
    # ...
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    feature-list=enable-incoming-folders
 
  
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'''Note:''' You will be prompted for your (new) CalMail password when start pine/alpine. On office and home machines, you will be prompted for the password once again at the moment you send your first outgoing message. Though it may look annoying, it is a security requirement of CailMail service.
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=== Enabling incoming message folders ===
  
For home machines, you'll probably also need the following change.
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In pine/alpine terms incoming message folders are server-stored mailboxes other than default INBOX, e.g. Drafts, Sent, Trash, etc. In order to have access to incoming folders, edit the ''feature-list'' option in the .pinerc file as follows:
  
 
<pre>
 
<pre>
    smtp-server=calmail.berkeley.edu:587/tls/user=username@math.berkeley.edu/novalidate-cert
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feature-list=enable-incoming-folders
 
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--[[User:SteveSizemore|Steve Sizemore - Unix System Manager]] 02:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 
--[[User:SteveSizemore|Steve Sizemore - Unix System Manager]] 02:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 16:14, 14 April 2009

Setting up Calmail IMAP server with pine/alpine

For machines in the Math Department, edit the inbox-path option in the .pinerc file in your home directory (username should be substituted with your actual user name on the Math systems):

inbox-path={calmail.berkeley.edu/user=username@math.berkeley.edu/tls/novalidate-cert}INBOX

Setting up outgoing SMTP server

For office and home machines, you'll also need the following change:

smtp-server=calmail.berkeley.edu:587/tls/user=username@math.berkeley.edu/novalidate-cert

Note: You will be prompted for your (new) CalMail password when start pine/alpine. On office and home machines, you will be prompted for the password once again at the moment you send your first outgoing message. Though it may look annoying, it is a security requirement of CailMail service.

Enabling incoming message folders

In pine/alpine terms incoming message folders are server-stored mailboxes other than default INBOX, e.g. Drafts, Sent, Trash, etc. In order to have access to incoming folders, edit the feature-list option in the .pinerc file as follows:

feature-list=enable-incoming-folders

--Steve Sizemore - Unix System Manager 02:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC)