On 2024-06-04 02:49, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote:
Karen Lewellen wrote:I am sure they have heard about alpine, but that is not really the question for them. Instead, speaking personally, the question should be something like Hi. I wish to use imap and the third party application alpine to read my fastmail.Do I need an application password for this, or is there another way?If fastmail supports imap, which it seems to do, then fastmile likely has a process for telling the service what that application is for them specifically.Make sense?Yes.
They surely have a web page specifying what parameters are needed for any generic imap mail client. Do you have that link?
I found a possible page at <https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279921-IMAP-POP-and-SMTP>
IMAP imap.fastmail.com Port 993 POP pop.fastmail.com Port 995 SMTP smtp.fastmail.com Port 465 (SSL) or 587 (STARTTLS)What they do not say is what form take the expected login and password. There is, however, another link:
<https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Server-names-and-ports> where it says: You will need to get an app password to connect to these servers. You cannot use your regular Fastmail password. and the configuration details are: IMAP Server imap.fastmail.com Port 993 SSL/TLS Encryption Enabled, but not STARTTLS Username Your Fastmail email address, including the domain.Password Your app-specific password. You cannot use your regular Fastmail password.
Root folder/IMAP path
prefix (leave blank)
Folder separator / (forward slash)
With that data, a configuration string for alpine can be concocted
incoming-folders=...
"fastmail" {imap.fastmail.com/tls/user=ch...@cwm030.com}INBOX,
...
And give the specific application password when asked. If that fails,
start alpine with imap debug options, which I don't remember offhand.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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