[Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

[upen]

> You can configure Alpine to execute Dovecot's imap binary and talk to it. That makes it work nicely with Dovecot and won't prompt >the user for a password. If you're using v1.x you can run "dovecot --exec-mail imap" and with v2.0 you just need to run "imap". I don't >know specifically what this setting in Alpine is called.

I am running dovecot 2.0-0.10.beta6.20100630.el6.x86_64. Now this is
new to me that you can call a dovecot-imap binary from alpine but how
and where does this setting go is a question for me now. I will try
going through pine.conf. Thanks for your advice.

~UG

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 5.5.2011, at 23.43, upen wrote:
>
>> If maildir support in alpine does not work like it does for mbox then
>> I'll have to configure IMAP setings in pine.conf for alpine users. I
>> must say that alpine is installed on mail server :). Although IMAP
>> setting may work fine, it will prompt user for password initially when
>> checking email and while sending first email. I'd like to avoid this
>> by using #md or #mc.
>
> You can configure Alpine to execute Dovecot's imap binary and talk to it. That makes it work nicely with Dovecot and won't prompt the user for a password. If you're using v1.x you can run "dovecot --exec-mail imap" and with v2.0 you just need to run "imap". I don't know specifically what this setting in Alpine is called.
>
>



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