[Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Timo Sirainen 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.

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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