Configuring Alpine with Gmail

One 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.

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