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Sending Email With Alpine
Copyright © 2017 by Steve Litt
CONTENTS:
Introduction
This page is not nearly complete. For the time being, keep these key facts in mind:
- All the action happens in your ~/.pinerc config file. When you use Alpine's config facilities, the result is changes to ~/.pinerc. You can accomplish the same thing, with an editor, by making the same changes directly in ~/.pinerc.
- Never directly edit ~/.pinerc until you've exited all instances of Alpine. After exiting all Alpine instances, be sure to refresh the ~/.pinerc in your editor, so your changes won't override the last changes made by Alpine itself.
- In order to send, in ~/.pinerc your default-fcc must be sent to an existing folder. So that mail sent from Alpine shows up in all IMAP aware clients, I suggest you configure it to be an IMAP folder. Here's what that line looks like in my ~/.pinerc:
default-fcc={192.168.100.2/ssl/user=slitt}Sent
- You must set up an SMTP server or SMTP on-ramp (like nullmailer or msmtp), and tell Alpine to send through that.