Re: [orca-list] setting up alpine

["Chris Gilland" <cgilland1 carolina rr com>]

Believe me.  I've looked at all the settings.  There is absolutely no way to 
set your pop3 or imap login within Alpine.  Yes, you most certainly can set 
your smtp, but not your incoming.  That is where fetchmail or postfix comes 
in, as it then delivers the mail to your local mailbox in your home 
directory.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor Saunders" <trev saunders gmail com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] setting up alpine


> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 03:59:59AM -0400, Chris Gilland wrote:
> > For one, Alpine is going to work better with Speakup than with Orca, 
> > however
> > that isn't to say that you can't get some functionality with Orca.
>
> yes, sadly it seems to be the caase that orca doesn't perform very
> well in terminals.  I think a lot of it could be improved with fixes
> in the terminal emulators, but I sort of wonder if the difference in
> behavior desired between a terminal and gui screen reader isn't too
> big for one appp.
>
> > You need to do a man page look up for fetchmail.
> >
> > There is a file in your home directory that needs to be created called
> > .fetchmailrc.
> >
> > You're also going to need something like postfix or sendmail.  I 
> > personally
> > prefer postfix as it is in my book, way easier to configure.
>
> I think most of the people here who use terminal mail programs use
> mutt I know I've seen alpine as Mike G's user agent, and I'm not sure
> who else, so I'll let them anser this more.  While you can setup alpine to
> use fetchmail and a smtp server like postfix sendmail exim etc, there
> is no reason to do it this way, and a couple good reasons not to.  The
> reasons not to are that fetchmail's interaction style doesn't allow
> you to make use of imap in much of a useful way, also its much more
> complicated.  Its been a long time since I looked at pine /alpine, but
> I'm pretty sure if you go far enough into the settings there are
> setting for imap /pop server smtp server password etc, I can't tell
> you exactly how to do this though its been far too long.  I'm pretty sure
> google can tell you how to do this though.
>
> HTH
>
> Trev
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> > Behalf Of michael weaver
> > Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:24 AM
> > To: orca-list gnome org
> > Subject: [orca-list] setting up alpine
> >
> > i have looked at the alpine mail program and it seems fairly accessible 
> > with
> > orca.
> > however i can't seem to find the menue for entering my mail and news
> > settings.
> > maybe i am missing something obvious.
> > i used the up and down arrow keys and pressed enter on settings but i
> > couldn't find the correct options.
> > i presume i need to enter my email and news settings somewhere.
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