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For questions about Alpine, a free software email client developed at the University of Washington, Note that the [alpine-linux] Distro has a different tag.

Alpine is a free software email client developed at the University of Washington. Alpine 1.0 was publicly released on December 20, 2007. The name "Alpine" stands for Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email. Alpine is a rewrite of the Pine Message System that adds support for Unicode and other features. (Source: wikipedia)

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How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?

How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?
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How do I disable the monthly asking for saving sent-mail in Alpine?

Alpine always bugs me with its special offer of saving my sent mail monthly to a folder named like sent-mail-monthname-year. I want to not have this offer! I have other solutions for organizing my old mails. Maybe I'm blind, but I did not find any…
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Advanced imap search with alpine?

I am using alpine since a few days and I am very happy with the IMAP functionality and the terrific speed. The only frustration is that the W search (whereis) isn't as powerful (and probably not meant to be). What would be the best solution to…
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Using IMAP with Pine (Alpine)

Is it possible to use IMAP when using Pine? I'm looking to sync up my Gmail account for easy emailing and wanted to know if it was something that Pine can handle.
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Sending emails in Pine (Alpine) with underline, emphasis

I would like to send emails via Pine (Alpine) but with correct style usage, for instance, underlining book names, etc. How can I create emails in Pine using underline, emphasis, etc. (This can include a variety of receivers of such emails ranging…
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Alpine - sync sent mail

My mail client can sync sent mail, independent of method used to send email (iphone, mail client, browser). But I'm finding that Alpine is only saving my sent mail that is sent using Alpine. How do I get Alpine to sync all sent mail? Thanks in…
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Can I backup my IMAP Gmail account locally using only Alpine?

I recently discovered cli email clients and have fallen in love with their speed and simplicity. After playing around with mutt and alpine I decided I favor alpine. I am a Gmail IMAP user and have many years of emails that I'd like to store locally.…
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Folder configuration of gmail with alpine

I'm using my Google account with Alpine. I only appear to have the "Inbox" folder - I haven't got "Trash", "Drafts", "Sent Mail" or "All Mails". Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Here my configuration: Default Fcc (File carbon…
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How do I integrate GPG with alpine?

I have tried a couple of howtos, but they seem to either be too out of date or just plain don't work (don't work for me, at least). How do I sign and encrypt messages, as well as check integrity of received messages (and decrypt them if needed) in…
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POP EMail with Alpine (Pine)

Over the years I used Pine off and on, especially i college How can I setup Pine to POP down my mail so it is local on my machine? I dont like storing my mail on a server someplace, I like to have it local so I can back it up,etc Anyone have any…
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Alpine email client does not sort alphabetically

How can I get the Alpine email client to correctly sort From? I am using Alpine v2.21 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server. When I attempt to do so for a folder by typing the '$' key and selecting 'F' for 'From', I typically get garbage like (I have redacted…
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How can I mark a message as new in Alpine?

While looking at a list of emails in Alpine, I inadvertently entered a message I wished to save for later reading. The "N" marking the message as new disappeared, of course. I'd like to mark it new again, so it stands out later when I have time to…
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How to prevent alpine from asking to move read messages?

I teach 4 classes in the university and use pine as mail reader. I have one folder for each class and for stuff like administration, computing, bureaucracy etc. and leave unresolved stuff in the inbox. After I solve the issue, I archive the message…
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Access Exchange global address list using pine (alpine) or other email clients

How can I access an Exchange server's global address list using a mail client of my choice (preferable pine/alpine)? In the past, if I knew what the LDAP server and the associated settings were for the address book, I could use it in…
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Only show last X messages in Alpine

I am using Alpine for my email - I have it connected to Gmail and it works great. However I'd like to avoid having the whole list of messages in the inbox (there are thousands), because I think it slows the client down a bit. Is there a way to tell…
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