Configuring Alpine with Gmail
February 1, 2008One of the interesting installations which I have done recently was Alpine with Gmail. Alpine is the latest email software released by the University of Washington and it closely resembles Pine. So for all of you folks who love Pine and still want the good old email system, here are some secrets to configure Alpine with Gmail:
1. While installing, check the “Use local configuration file” option and click ok
2. In the “Alpine Configuration Setup” fill all the information with your full email address (user@gmail.com), imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com
3. Launch Alpine -> Setup -> Config and enter the following:
User ID: user@gmail.com
User Domain: gmail.com
smtp server: smtp.gmail.com:587/tls
Inbox Path: imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=user@gmail.com
And you are all set up !!!!! Following the above configuration steps, the first time around you will be asked for your imap and smtp passwords when opening the inbox or sending email. Enter your gmail password and check the “remember password” option, so that you don’t have to enter your password the next time.
Thanks. This worked like a champ!
Brilliant – thanks so much. I’d just about given up until I found this.
Thank-you for the tutorial. Much appreciated.
The first time I run, PINE don’t ask any password?
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Thanks for this simple and effective tutorial.
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Great!
Good tutorial, i just wanna add something:
GMail smtp requires authentication, so in order to store you username modify the smpt URL to be:
smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/user=USERNAME@gmail.com and replace USERNAME with your gmail username. When you send email, it will only request for password.
Thanks! Worked great!