alpine

Rava · 09-30-2014, 10:28 PM

As you can see here, I was able to setup alpine via IMPA: just OK
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...st-4175504524/

Sadly, I cannot send any email... Does alpine need something like sendmail or qmail or such installed on my system (cause there isn't)

I can read, delete, sort, search emails. I can also edit/write new emails. But alpine cannot actually send an email! I tried searching the FAQ's and readme's and man page but nowhere is mentioned if alpine needs something like sendmail for actually sending an email...

The error alpine gives me is this:

Code:

[Mail not sent: Bad sequence of commands]

DuckDuckGoing for that gave no helpful results, either...

Any tips, any ideas?

frankbell · 09-30-2014, 11:04 PM

Alpine is a MUA (mail user agent), not an MTA (mail transfer agent).

You do need an MTA to send the mail.

This link should help.

You can likely use the MTA of your choice. I have Mutt set up as a mail client on a couple of computers, because I wanted the experience. I use msmtp to send mail and fetchmail to--er--fetch it. The configuration is very straightforward.

This site is mostly about Mutt, but it may help you as regards getting and sending mail.

Rava · 09-30-2014, 11:11 PM

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So, I need to set up qmail, or mutt... just to send emails?

Cause receiving, and all that, is already working fine with alpine...

What is the most slim and error-less MTA that is not sendmail?

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But.... then again, the first link you gave me gives me ths:

Quote:

All outgoing email is delivered to an SMTP server or to a mail transfer agent. A common mail transfer agent is sendmail. The usual method of delivery used by Alpine is to use either a local or a remote SMTP server.

So, alpine should be able to sent emails via the remote email-provider's SMTP server, no?

Without me needing an MTA, that is? or do I read this help page wrong?

Rava · 09-30-2014, 11:21 PM

Update

In another readme file http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tec...ml#smtp-server it says

Quote:

One or more SMTP servers (host name or IP address) which Alpine will use for outgoing mail. If not set, Alpine passes outgoing email to the sendmail program on the local machine. PC-Alpine users must have this variable set in order to send mail as they have no sendmail program.

Your SMTP server may offer SMTP AUTH authentication. It may even require it. If your SMTP server offers SMTP AUTH authentication you may specify a "user" name parameter to cause Alpine to attempt to authenticate. This parameter requires an associated value, the username identifier with which to establish the server connection. An example might be:

smtpserver.example.com/user=katie

I used the SMTP settings as posted on my email provider's page.... tls with a certain port number...

But like I said, I get the above error... But by what above quoted readme said, alpine should try sending mail directly via the remote SMTP, no?

frankbell · 10-01-2014, 09:15 PM

Mutt is just another MUA. You wouldn't need it if you were planning to use Alpine.

Here's another link, specifically about setting up Alpine to work with Gmail. I may have made it unduly complicated in my first post; this should help.

http://harbhag.wordpress.com/2010/07...ls-from-gmail/

Rava · 10-02-2014, 09:22 PM

^
Thanks for that link, saving the page locally, so I can go over it whenever I need...

Will post an update here if that worked well for my provider and hopefully then alpine can receive and send emails... (Now I have to sleep, 03:22 (a.m.) here already. </offline>