on my alpine in pine.conf we have settings: inbox-path=#md//var/spool/mail/$USER

and alpine is: oceanic:~# rpm -qa alpine alpine-2.02-1.fc14.x86_64

and it works.

Thanks for helping out. Just want to confirm.

Is /var/spool/mail/$USER maildir format or mbox I have read that mailbox location generally used for mbox format.

If it is maildir format, then one more question, are you able to see all folders in the maildir or just INBOX using that setting?

Thanks, UG

2011/5/6 Bartłomiej Solarz-Niesłuchowski Bartlomiej.Solarz-Niesluchowski@wit.edu.pl:

W dniu 2011-05-05 23:43, upen pisze:

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Hello,

I am trying to configure pine.conf for all users and running into an issue. In this setup, Mailbox format is Maildir and Maildir location is /Mail/Username/{new,cur,..etc}

First thing required in alpine was patch for maildir and this has already been done. After that I have tried setting up folder-collection Mail  #md ../../Mail/username and also tried using #mc (not sure which one is correct #md or #mc). Nothing worked.

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.

If anyone has any useful inputs please let me know.

on my alpine in pine.conf we have settings: inbox-path=#md//var/spool/mail/$USER

and alpine is: oceanic:~# rpm -qa alpine alpine-2.02-1.fc14.x86_64

and it works.

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Thank you! UG.

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Is /var/spool/mail/$USER maildir format or mbox I have read that mailbox location generally used for mbox format.

maildir

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If it is maildir format, then one more question, are you able to see all folders in the maildir or just INBOX using that setting?

folder-collections=Mail #md/Maildir/.mail.[]

Thank you very much for the quick confirmation. If I use #md in my configuration then alpine would show below error message

[Can't open folder #md../../Maildir/mail/username/: no such folder]

So I changed settings as below,(Note: maildir location in dovecot is /Maildir/mail/username and mail gets dropped there so there is no ~Maildir in users home directory)

inbox-path=../../Maildir/mail/username/ maildir-location=../Maildir/mail/username folder-collections=Mail /Maildir/mail/username/.[]

Now pine does not complain and I can read inbox and see folders, however one issue : [/] as a folder after every other actual folder , as below

INBOX ABCD[/] Drafts[/] Queue[/] Saved[/] Sent[/] Trash[/] hello[/]

I wonder if there is a way to configure such that [/] folder will not appear as this way user will have to hit tab twice to see next folder. If I hit enter key on [/] then there is nothing inside but a note saying it is a maildirfolder. If I select ABCD then it works as expected.

Any idea?

Thanks, UG

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@iki.fi wrote:

On 5.5.2011, at 23.43, upen wrote:

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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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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Charles Marcus CMarcus@media-brokers.com wrote:

On 2011-05-06 9:35 AM, upen wrote:

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I am running dovecot 2.0-0.10.beta6.20100630.el6.x86_64

A very early beta of 2.0... first thing on our list of action items is (or should be) to update to the latest stable RELEASE version.

Well, this is what RHEL 6 's stable repo currently offers and I want to stick with repo assuming this version is stable on RHEL 6 atleast.

yum info dovecot Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin Installed Packages Name : dovecot Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 2.0 Release : 0.10.beta6.20100630.el6

Any idea on pine ? I guess there not many alpine users on this list..:)

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Charles Marcus CMarcus@media-brokers.com wrote:

On 2011-05-06 11:10 AM, upen wrote:

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Well, this is what RHEL 6 's stable repo currently offers

Well, if you're not willing to upgrade to at least a reasonably stable RELEASE version, don't be surprised if you get little to no help.

I'll never understand this attitude...

All I understand is that the issue I am having is not due to the version of dovecotthat is installed. If I know that this is not working due to beta version then I am willing to upgrade. Thanks for your opinion.

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On 5.5.2011, at 23.43, upen wrote:

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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.

This is what I am doing right now.

http://www.asheesh.org/note/sysop/passwordless-alpine.html says a little more. I strongly recommend this.

In fact, I think I should someday talk to the re-alpine team and figure out how to make this easier to configure. It's already reasonably easy, but it can require some fiddling.

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