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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