Pine and GMail

murffatksig · 2006-09-15 00:51:44

I'm trying to use Pine to read my Gmail. I can see new mail and send just fine. But once I read a message it gets deleted. The next time I return to Pine, the message is no where to be found. Is this a setting in pine I'm missing, or possibly a gmail configuration problem?

fluorite · 2006-09-15 09:27:58

Could you share your configs? I'm intresting in doing the same thing.

dadexter · 2006-09-15 10:53:01

Pine gives you an image of what the server has in the inbox.
It doesn't receive the emails in a local inbox...

Once an email is read via POP, gmail makes it unavailable in the inbox so that other pop clients will not download it again

You'll have to save your emails using the <s> command I think, to keep a local copy

murffatksig · 2006-09-15 14:41:39

dadexter wrote:

Pine gives you an image of what the server has in the inbox.
It doesn't receive the emails in a local inbox...
Once an email is read via POP, gmail makes it unavailable in the inbox so that other pop clients will not download it again
You'll have to save your emails using the <s> command I think, to keep a local copy

well bummer, I guess I'll have to manually save every email then. Thanks

oh, flourite, heres the important part of my .pinerc

personal-name=First Last <fakename>
user-domain=
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/tls/novalidate-cert/user=fakename@gmail.com
nntp-server=
inbox-path={pop.gmail.com/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=fakename@gmail.com}INBOX

dadexter · 2006-09-15 18:46:21

You can use a program like getmail or fetchmail to get your emails from gmail locally to your box

hotsauce · 2006-09-16 13:23:00

dadexter wrote:

Once an email is read via POP, gmail makes it unavailable in the inbox so that other pop clients will not download it again

That's not entirely true. You can go in the gmail settings to change its behavior.

I personally use getmail to download the mail to a local mailbox and set gmail to archive the emails once they're downloaded to my pc. That way I keep a clean inbox but can still access all the mails from outside the home.

Good luck

Vince

murffatksig · 2006-09-20 00:04:32

Well, I ended up using fetchmail to grab the email, then pine can read the email.

Works great.

dw · 2008-01-02 09:52:34

sorry for bumping this old thread.

does anybody want to share a working .pinerc for gmail / imap ? thx

dolby · 2008-01-02 12:19:41

btw i have requested a pine replacemnt with alpine but dont use either, at least atm.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9040
if anyone has anything against this now would be a good time to speak...
as far as i can tell, alpine is the same as pine only with a much less restrictive license and actively developed

Last edited by dolby (2008-01-02 12:20:08)

finferflu · 2008-01-02 16:04:41

@ dw
Give a look at this thread, you will find how I have configured Alpine to work with Gmail with SMTP. As for IMAP, you need to use the following server:

imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=username@gmail.com

or your Google Apps domain, if you use that instead.

Have fun

dw · 2008-01-03 06:02:17

hi finferflu.

worked like a charm, thx mate!

dolby · 2008-02-11 14:05:36

Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 04:19 GMT+2
alpine is now in testing repo. Please report any success or problems.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9040

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#1 2006-09-15 00:51:44

Pine and GMail

#2 2006-09-15 09:27:58

Re: Pine and GMail

#3 2006-09-15 10:53:01

Re: Pine and GMail

#4 2006-09-15 14:41:39

Re: Pine and GMail

#5 2006-09-15 18:46:21

Re: Pine and GMail

#6 2006-09-16 13:23:00

Re: Pine and GMail

#7 2006-09-20 00:04:32

Re: Pine and GMail

#8 2008-01-02 09:52:34

Re: Pine and GMail

#9 2008-01-02 12:19:41

Re: Pine and GMail

#10 2008-01-02 16:04:41

Re: Pine and GMail

#11 2008-01-03 06:02:17

Re: Pine and GMail

#12 2008-02-11 14:05:36

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