Configure Alpine for IMAP

You can configure Alpine for IMAP using Alpine Commands, or by adding lines to your ${HOME}/.pinerc file.

Configuring with Alpine Commands

To configure IMAP from within alpine, you can use the Config menu to change the inbox path and select a few options, and use the Collections menu to define the location of your other folders

  1. (M)ain (S)etup (C)onfig
  2. change inbox-path to {laime.cs.uchicago.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX
  3. select quell-empty-directories and separate-folder-and-directory-entries
  4. (M)ain (S)etup Co(L)lections
  5. (A)dd Collection: Nickname: imap, Server:laime.cs.uchicago.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert

Configuring with .pinerc

Note:
  • Until our certificates are set up, you need to specify novalidate-cert 
## Alpine configuration file for simple IMAP use
  
# Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail.
user-domain=cs.uchicago.edu

# Where to find your inbox
inbox-path={laime.cs.uchicago.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX
  
# Where to find your other folders
folder-collections={laime.cs.uchicago.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert}[]
  
# These features make Alpine show imap folders nicely
feature-list=quell-empty-directories, separate-folder-and-directory-entries

Filtering mail with sieve

If you wish to filter mail into a folder 'spam', you must create that folder first:
  1. (M)ain (L)ist
  2. Select imap, hit return
  3. (A)dd, Folder name: spam