Setting up pine / alpine for use with IMAP and the CS systems

General Notice

pine is available on the Solaris machines.
alpine is the replacement mail tool and currently is only found on the Ubuntu machines.

/var/mail is NFS mounted on the Solaris machines, which allows pine to read your inbox without the need for IMAP. This functionality is going to go away as the Solaris machines are phased out. There are no plans to mount /var/mail from the Ubuntu machines which is why you will need to set alpine up to read mail through IMAP

Setting up (al)pine to use IMAP

Once you start alpine, at the main screen hit 'S' then 'C'
(S) Setup -> (C) Config::

User Domain = cs.rit.edu
SMTP Server (for sending) = mailhost.cs.rit.edu:587/tls
Inbox Path = {mailhost.cs.rit.edu/user=username/ssl/IMAP}INBOX

where username is your CS username, ie. abc1234

choose 'E' to exit setup and confirm the changes.

To read your inbox type in your CS password at the promt. Then 'L' Folder List -> 'M' Mail -> INBOX