On Wed, 20 Dec 2023, Karen Lewellen wrote:
As an example, when I send a gmail, the message is not placed in my sent messages folder, instead it just gets saved to my inbox.
I suppose that, if you send via Alpine, you can always specify in Fcc: explicitly the (local?) folder where you want to archive. Actually you can also associate in your alpine addressbook an Fcc: for each addreess (my usage is to store both incoming and outgoing messages tyo/from somebody in a folder by person or project ... I never use sent-mail).
But I send via a non-gmail SMTP in 98% of the cases.
If I delete something, at least just now, it is not actually removed,
delete AND expunge ? If you do not expunge items are just marked for deletion (in alpine)
gmail is somewhat odd, I think it moves deleted items to Bin. But alpine can access gmail's Bin, and do ; A A D X (Select All Apply Delete eXpunge) to cleanup Bin. I do it once per day (my fetchmail empties gmail inbox, but a copy is made in Bin anyhow)
1, gmail uses a different folder / labeling system from alpine
Yes I guess so. I never managed to understand it although perhaps one colleague did. But I use only Bin and Spam. ll my other folders are local
2, my resource who is new to alpine is missing a folder filter step allowing alpine to control where items go?
Other can reply about this. I do not use alpine filtering (which anyhow works when you enter alpine). I use procmail for filtering (at delivery time), but to use that with gmail I need to use fetchmail also. Whose future with gmail is uncertain.
I think I sent you some details on my config about one month ago. _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list Alpine-info@u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
