• Using Alpine on MacOSX and with Gmail

    Ahh… good ol’ Pine. One of coolest little mail programs.
    Step 1: Get MacPorts
    Step 2: In terminal:
    sudo port install alpine
    Step 3: Launch alpine.
    Step 4: Go to configuration options. Set up the options, as follows:
    User Domain: user@gmail.com
    SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/novalidate-cert/user=user@gmail.com
    Inbox Path:
      Name of Inbox server: imap.gmail.com/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=user@gmail.com
      Folder on “imap.gmail.com/ss…” to use for INBOX [inbox]: just press enter here.
    Final settings:

    That’s it!

    Sweet.

    Note the potentially insecure novalidate-cert because Google’s certificate is considered invalid, and I didn’t feel like going and finding how to add this cert properly.

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