Using Alpine on Gmail

[Alan Corey]

Enough of that GUI nonsense, in 3 days Thunderbird couldn't index my
gmail inbox, or download all the headers, or whatever it was doing. Don't
need Firefox or Thunderbird loaded to get to your email either. And high
CPU usage to accomplish nothing, just your favorite terminal emulator.

This is fast, like the Android client. And now maybe
quoting will work right in mailing lists. And because it's IMAP you can
have several clients going at once. I started on Pine but it's hard to
tell the difference.

Instructions:
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~csadmin/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_Pine_(Alpine)_for_IMAP_Gmail

The URLs I used were just imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com, didn't need
usernames or ports. Signature goes in ~/.signature

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Sent from Alpine connected to Gmail on my 64-bit Raspberry Pi

[Adam Borowski]

Enough of that GUI nonsense, in 3 days Thunderbird couldn't index my gmail

^^^^^

inbox, or download all the headers, or whatever it was doing.

Here's your problem. Problems with gmail are not limited to shitting on
your and everyone's you correspond with privacy (incl. giving your mails to
third parties). It also drops random mails without any notification -- and,
as you just noticed, fails badly with actual clients. That some clients are
more amenable to breakage doesn't make gmail any more acceptable.


Meow!