UNC Linux Users Group

[Dan Blanchette <dan_blanchette AT unc.edu>]

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