Re: [Alpine-info] An issue of Sentmail folder

On Sat, 3 Sep 2022, Riku Virtanen wrote: I have an issue in the names in folders. In my Linux Alpine, Sentmail folder shows who is the recipient. In Windows Alpine 2.25, Sentmail shows who is the sender. The sender is mine in all mails. How could I change that? I would like to change that I see

Re: [Alpine-info] ical display confuses me about timezones.

On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: I've noticed times reported as "Eastern Standard Time" even if they are actually in "Easter Daylight Savings Time". In this message I explore why. Here's an example: Start Date: Wed 2022-10-12 09:30 AM (Eastern Standard Time) End Date: Wed 202

Re: [Alpine-info] Cannot use OAuth2 authorize method

On Thu, 6 Oct 2022, Orion Poplawski wrote: I'm trying to use the OAuth2 authorize method, but after signing in I get: Sorry, but we’re having trouble signing you in. AADSTS50011: The redirect URI 'http://localhost' specified in the request does not match the redirect URIs configured for the ap

Re: [Alpine-info] sending mails with alpine

On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: when I send  a mail with alpine to someb...@gmail.com, it arrives with "frenk...@gmail.com" as sender, but the replies are sent to "pierre.frenk...@gmail.com". It looks like a bug, unless somebody can tell me what I do wrong If you have an acco

Re: [Alpine-info] Are Their Hard Limits in News Group Articles?

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Chime Hart wrote: Well, I am trying to open alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance in alpine. Yes it crashes with the following: [Opening "alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance" ... ] Problem detected: "Bad msgno 101 in mail_elt, nmsgs = 100, mbx={news.ord.giganews.com:119/nntp/read

Re: [Alpine-info] Are Their Hard Limits in News Group Articles?

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Chime Hart wrote: Thank you Andrew-and-Eduardo, will examin both your solutions. I will need to confirm that a range option will actually display the most recent postings? Seems many years ago, I tried it-and-I wasn't sure, but also, it seemingly didn't mark articles as read

Re: [Alpine-info] forward over answer etc

On Sun, 13 Nov 2022, superao...@gmail.com wrote: So neither STATUS or FULLSTATUS will show both F and A flags. Is there any (easy) way to view this information? it doesn't appear in the message display either and switching between the two views is (politely) clunky... Only the STATUS token

Re: [Alpine-info] "syntax error in sequence"

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, Paul wrote: Once every week or two, when I send a reply (via a remote SMTP server), Alpine 2.25 tells me "Syntax error in sequence" after the send finishes. You can track SMTP issues by enabling [X] Enable Verbose SMTP Posting then repeat the issue, and once you have re

Re: [Alpine-info] SIGABRT when answering to a certain mail

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: Hi, alpine just crashed on me (version 2.26, latest git clone from the repo) when trying to reply to a mail in my mailbox. Dear Ferdinand, is there any chance that I can see the message that made Alpine crashed? I do not need the text of the

Re: [Alpine-info] YYYY-MM-DD Date Format?

On Tue, 2 May 2023, Simon Harrison wrote: Is it possible to show the date received column in this format: -MM-DD Yes. Press M S C and go to "Index Format", there press "?" for help and copy the default into the field and replace the original value of SMARTDATETIME24 token by DATEISO.

Re: [Alpine-info] invalid_grant error AADSTS70043: expired or invalid refresh token

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Chamberlain, Brad wrote: Hello alpine community — I returned from a week's vacation this morning, fired up alpine and have been getting error messages that are unfamiliar to me.  Upon trying to open my inbox, I get:                                            [>Code 400:

Re: [Alpine-info] invalid_grant error AADSTS70043: expired or invalid refresh token

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023, Brad Chamberlain wrote: Thanks for the tips! I guess I didn't say in my original message, but when the failure originally occurred (upon running 'alpine'), the reason for the failure was completely unclear. It just said something vague like "unable to open INBOX" or the

Re: [Alpine-info] attachments and ms defender - ideas?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, superao...@gmail.com wrote: Since I hook emails off the outlook server before the scans take place (but end up reading them after the scans have completed) I only receive the preview link (which is dead by then because the scan is complete). If I understand you correctly,

Re: [Alpine-info] invalid_grant error AADSTS70043: expired or invalid refresh token

On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, Jerry wrote: Thanks Eduardo for the explanation. I use alpine on a Mac, and frankly, considering that you do not program on a Mac, I'm impressed that alpine has Mac specific code. For clarification purposes. The KeyChain code comes from the team at the University of Was

Re: [Alpine-info] Sudenly, a rule doesn't work.

On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote: "imap F Gmx L" {imap.gmx.com/tls/user=m...@gmx.es/loser}INBOX, This has been working since this post, but today it fails again. [full text search not supported] Go through your .pinerc file and make sure that every connection to ima

Re: [Alpine-info] Sorting folders ?

On Sat, 23 Sep 2023, Mark Geary wrote: On Sep 23, 2023, at 6:17 AM, Mats Dufberg wrote: I suggest that you install 2.26, the latest version, to see if that helps. I use 2.26 to read iCloud mail and $F and $S don't work for me. Can you run Alpine using the command alpine -d imap=4 repeat

Re: [Alpine-info] Signing with S/MIME.

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote: I have S/MIME configured in Thunderbird. What are the steps to transfer or copy my key or certificate from Thunderbird to Alpine? The certificate I have has the extension .p12. I tried copying the file to ~/.alpine-smime/private, but alpine says it d

Re: [Alpine-info] basic alpine setup question..again?

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, Having to set up another mailbox on dreamhost, using Alpine. I recall this error some years back, but even alpine has been updated, so I do not recall where to fix these two issues. first I get an rsh to imap timeout error..all the time, but

Re: [Alpine-info] Signing with S/MIME.

On Sat, 18 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote: There is something not clear. The help text says: «After you have exported these certificates and keys, you can use the import command in Alpine, from the S/MIME configuration screen, to import these certificates into Alpine. They will be available for

Re: [Alpine-info] Signing with S/MIME.

On Sun, 19 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote: - Manage your own certificates - Manage Public Certificates Manage Private Keys Manage Certificate Authorities I assume these three are for self signed certificates, so they don't apply to me.

Re: [Alpine-info] Signing with S/MIME.

On Sun, 19 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote: And today I have noticed that my email is not listed in the certificate, despite me asking for it. That could be the reason. That is certainly relevant. S/MIME certificates are meant to verify the email address, not people. Sure, you can verify people

Re: [Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

On Sun, 26 Nov 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: To work, application specific passwords are necessary for both mutt and alpine, Carlos E.R. explains how to get these, however mutt has the ability to use oauth credentials which alpine doesn't seem to have yet.  Many people have gone over to mutt f

Re: [Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: I am also concerned with loosing Google html search page but one for duckduckgo.com exists. I include everyone in my message who could benefit by any changes that increase accessability to all. ... but at the same time reduce security for all. You

Re: [Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: [...] I am quite concerned about the moves of gmail moving away from IMAP sometimes next year. I am seeking solutions ... IMAP will continue to be supported by Gmail, what will not be supported is that you use username/password authentication. Inste

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

On Wed, 20 Dec 2023, Paolo Andretta wrote: I have tried to set the variable folder-collections to many values without results. Any hints? If you are going to use Alpine exclusively to manage your folders try these: folder-collections="Nick Name" #mc/INBOX.[], "Another Nick" #mc/INBO

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

On Sun, 24 Dec 2023, Paolo Andretta wrote: Not what I hoped to achieve :-( When I press "l" to go to Folder list, I get: Nick Name Local folders in #mc/Maildir. Another Nick Local folders in #mc/Maildir.mail. It seems that you need to spend some time in the configur

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

On Sun, 24 Dec 2023, Paolo Andretta wrote: The only problem I noticied is that while I can create a subfolder saving a message in FOLDER.subfolder , when I try to delete it it give me this error: [Can not read #mc/Maildir/.mail.23.12a//: No such file or directory] subfolder Ouch, that doe

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, Paolo Andretta wrote: This is also what I understand. but I am not a developer/programmer, so asking to Eduardo that suggests me to apply the patch. ;-) I do not distribute rpms, whoever distributed yours is responsible for its source code, as such, all I can tell you is t

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024, Paolo Andretta wrote: In the disks I have something like this remaining: dovecot-uidlist │ 26627│Dec 18 00:09│ dovecot.index │ 5684│Dec 18 11:34│ dovecot.index.cache │ 455352│Jan 8 19:06│ dovecot.index

Re: [Alpine-info] S/MIME signatures w/ intermediate chain?

On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Andreas Schamanek wrote: Is there a way to have Alpine sign a message and include intermediate AKA chain certificates? My understanding is that you need to add the intermediate certificates as .crt files to your ~/.alpine-smime/ca directory, not to the certificate itself.

Re: [Alpine-info] Forwarded mail partially invisible in Outlook

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Olaf Skibbe wrote: I came across a strange issue which is most likely related to outlook. But since alpine is involved, I want to make sure that the problem is not caused by alpine. Dear Olaf, sorry I had not replied earlier, I've been very busy on this side of the sc

Re: [Alpine-info] Forwarded mail partially invisible in Outlook

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024, Olaf Skibbe wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 11:21, Eduardo Chappa wrote: The problem is not Alpine, the problem is the outlook interface. Just to avoid any misunderstandings: I used the Outlook web interface (OWA), but the same behavior can be observed by the (locally

Re: [Alpine-info] ALPINE: [O365] Email Setup: Seems to be difficult

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Brian S. Baker [VIA BBUS] wrote: I just wanted to post to the list to ask if there is any way to make it easier to set up alpine using office365 Email.  When I follow the instructions  from: https://alpineapp.email/alpine/alpine-info/misc/SettingXOAUTH2Outlook.html  I end up

Re: [Alpine-info] How do I use gpg to verify alpine-2.26.zip?

Hello Nancy, thank you for trying version 2.26. I do not normally post gpg signatures for windows binaries. This has to do with moving files between computers which leads to losing information (keys) and me not using gpg on a daily basis (so I am happy to regenerate keys as much as I need, w

Re: [Alpine-info] How do I use gpg to verify alpine-2.26.zip?

On Thu, 11 Apr 2024, NM Public via Alpine-info wrote: Thank you Eduardo! I'm glad I was able to verify this download. I try to be security conscious, especially after the recent xz backdoor ?? Good to be back in touch! Thank you Nancy for

Re: [Alpine-info] Gmail Access

On Sat, 18 May 2024, Marc Lytle via Alpine-info wrote: I have set up Alpine with Gmail and I'm able to successfully connect to the Gmail account and access/send email. The issue is that this just stops working after a couple of days. What happened during the "couple of days" that you mention

Re: [Alpine-info] Gmail Access

On Mon, 20 May 2024, Chime Hart wrote: Good Morning Eduardo: No we didn't keep Alpine opened, just every so-many days try-and-open it. While its interesting you mention opening 2 paralel instances, I want to ask a related anoyance? Sometimes while downloading a large youtube item linked from goo

Re: [Alpine-info] Running two copies of alpine - was Re: Gmail Access

Carlos and Chime, the loss of a session due to locking has nothing to do with imap access or not, it has to do with the way that the messages are stored. First, let us talk about local access. In its default configuration Alpine uses the unix format for local folders (except in Windows, w

Re: [Alpine-info] New to Alpine, but can't get it to connect.

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote: [...] Serverimap.fastmail.com Port 993 SSL/TLS EncryptionEnabled, but not STARTTLS Username Your Fastmail email address, including the domain. Password Your app-specific password. You cannot use your regular

Re: [Alpine-info] Firefox, snap and /tmp

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Kjell Rönnmark via Alpine-info wrote: Hi, Have you noticed that the snap version of Firefox in Ubuntu cannot access /tmp? See https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/firefox-snap-no-access-to-gvfs-and-tmp/27253 As far as I understand, alpine copies attached html files to /tmp, and I

Re: [Alpine-info] Firefox, snap and /tmp

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote: Prithee explain where I either suggested or inferred that alpine should be removed from Ubuntu? Your inference is offensive. Removing Alpine from Ubuntu does not solve this issue, but if they do, people can still compile it, or download

Re: [Alpine-info] Filtering

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: Please let me know if I've got anything set wrong: Current Folder Type = SetChoose One --- ( ) Any ( ) News (*) Email ( ) Specific (Enter Incoming Ni

Re: [Alpine-info] One last question before bed / and Thank ya'll!

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: Well, that's kinda hard when you're a " PACKRAT" and keep just about EVERYTHING sent to you / and sent by you. I am only using IMAP due to being forced to by ALPINE. I couldn't get a POP3 connect to set up and work with ALPINE. What does thi

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildrop setup in laymans terms?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: #MOVE {imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=ch...@cwm030.com}inbox ~/home/chris/maildrop Right? Except that "MOVE" is actually "move" in lowercase. Make sure that ~/home/chris/maildrop exists. You probably meant ~/maildrop, for the file in /home/chris.

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildrop setup in laymans terms?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: Except that "MOVE" is actually "move" in lowercase. Make sure that ~/home/chris/maildrop exists. You probably meant ~/maildrop, for the file in /home/chris. Yes, thats what I meant. And then for the send folder its basically the same: m s

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildrop setup in laymans terms?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: [Can't open /home/chris/maildrop: not a selectable folder] It looks like /home/chris/maildrop is a directory in your file system. As such it is not a location that can be used to save messages. However, an empty file would work, for example,

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildrop setup in laymans terms?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: touch command doesn't work chris@q4os-desktop:~$ touch /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail preceed that by mkdir /home/chris/maildrop -- Eduardo ___ Alpine-info mailing list Alpine-info@u.washington.ed

Re: [Alpine-info] Maildrop setup in laymans terms?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: Now I need to figure out how to set up a rule to automatically move the emails FROM inbox that "in" folder? That is what a maildrop does. If you set up your inbox-path in your .pinerc to #move {imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=ch...@cwm030.com}IN

Re: [Alpine-info] errors on macOS (installed from homebrew)

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024, via Alpine-info wrote: Installed 2.26 on latest macOS (ARM) from Homebrew. This shows up when I start alpine: 2024-07-13 15:53:34.819 alpine[69425:5984749] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 1. Parsing will be

Re: [Alpine-info] Search problem

On Sat, 27 Jul 2024, Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info wrote: I am in the INBOX of the account and want to select all mails from a certain sender. I do ; T F where is in this case something in the "From" header, e.g. ; T F olaf should find mails with a line like this in the header: From: Ola

Re: [Alpine-info] Search problem

On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, Olaf Skibbe wrote: It gets weirder: I just received my mail to the list. It appeared in the INBOX as new. Without opening it, I did ; T F skibbe and the message was selected. [...] It seems that your messages are selected if they are unseen. Try to see if flagging al

Re: [Alpine-info] things that might cause Alpine to close an Inbox?

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024, Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info wrote: Hi folks, I do not really encounter this issue anywhere but with the Alpine configurations at dreamhost. Even here the problem varies. still, curious what common factors might cause Alpine to close an inbox, say in less than a minute? W

Re: [Alpine-info] Where do removed messages go

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote: Hello. I am running alpine 2.25 on Linux Mint Mate 21.3 . I have just exited alpine, a few minutes ago, and it displayed a message stating that, for the folder that I was exiting, a number of messages were saved, and, 1 message was remove

Re: [Alpine-info] Sometimes, Alpine forgets the password.

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote: Sometimes, Alpine forgets the password for one of the accounts, that should have been saved weeks or months ago. Like this morning, computer resumes from hibernation and it asks for the password of one account. Ctrl-C, asks again and agai

Re: [Alpine-info] 1000messages-and-Scrolling?

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024, Chime Hart via Alpine-info wrote: Well, I have a backlog of messages in an inbox through Fastmail. Funny as soon as it hits 1000 every 7seconds the final screen from message 886-on will scroll or at least in my screen-reader, it continues announcing this group of messages,

Re: [Alpine-info] Localhost failed to create connection

, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote: Are you entering the URL in the top as code? On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Riku Virtanen via Alpine-info wrote: Hi, I used long time three gmail accounts as storage. Last weekend one of these stopped working with Alpine. Earlier I used 2.25. Now I tested with Alpine

Re: [Alpine-info] Localhost failed to create connection

Are you entering the URL in the top as code? On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Riku Virtanen via Alpine-info wrote: Hi, I used long time three gmail accounts as storage. Last weekend one of these stopped working with Alpine. Earlier I used 2.25. Now I tested with Alpine 2.26. I tested both Linux and Window

Re: [Alpine-info] qsort Protoype Not Detected Correctly?

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, Porcelain Mouse via Alpine-info wrote: Hello Eduardo & Forum, Is any one else having problems compiling alpine 2.26 with patch.all, recently? I get a compiler error, see below. I think the check for the proper arg types for qsort() in sortf() is not working correctly.

Re: [Alpine-info] Question about message composition - attaching files

On Tue, 27 May 2025, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote: Hello. I have a memory that, in pine, a hotkey combination was available for attaching files to a message being composed, but, in this version of alpine that I have; 2.25, running on Linux Mint Mate 21.3 - a derivative of Ubuntu Linux 22

Re: [Alpine-info] UTF-16 and header view of UTF-16 emails

Dear Robert, thank you for your email. I received the attachments through the list and through the personal email you sent me. I have tested the patches you sent me. I cannot tell you about the c-client part, other than it works for the cases you sent me. Do you have any more test cases

Re: [Alpine-info] Filter patterns and whitespace

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Ferdinand Goldmann via Alpine-info wrote: Hi, wanted to filter out annoying spam mails using a filter rule on the domain of the spam sender. The spam mails From fields all have the format of From: Annoying sen...@foo.host.com where the "@foo.host.com" part is always the s

Re: [Alpine-info] NULL ice in paint_index_line

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025, Christian Kujau via Alpine-info wrote: For a long time now Alpine would sometimes show the following in its status bar below: NULL ice in paint_index_line: reg index, msgno=9,238 line=41 [] I'm tracking the latest Alpine version from Git (currently 2e10831) and compile