[unclug] Use Pine to access your Gmail account
Dan Blanchette
dan_blanchette at unc.edu
Mon Nov 12 18:13:58 EST 2007
I figured out how to use Pine to access Gmail on my
Ubuntu Linux box.
Instructions:
First enable IMAP on your Google account!!!
-Log into Google and click "settings",
-Click "Forwarding and POP/IMAP"
-Under IMAP Access click "Enable IMAP"
Your .pinerc needs to be like this:
user-id=your.username at gmail.com
user-domain=gmail.com
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/user=your.username at gmail.com
(all on one line)
inbox-path={imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=your.username at gmail.com}INBOX
(all on one line)
incoming-folders=your.username at gmail.com {imap.gmail.com:993/novalidate-cert/ssl/user=your.username at gmail.com}
(you probably have to check "enable-incoming-folders" in your Pine Setup, Config as well)
(all on one line)
folder-collections="your.username at gmail.com" {imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/user=your.username at gmail.com}[]
You can invoke pine using an alternate .pinerc like so:
pine -p .pinerc_gmail
You can't use /afs/isis/pkg/pine/bin/pine because it's configured to fix
settings for smtp-server and user-domain back to UNC's. So you can read
your Gmail with it but when you send e-mail things get confusing.
Let me know if you find anything wrong with these instructions.
Dan Blanchette
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