[Alpine-info] incoming collections (and not)

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:


> In my .pinerc I have defined a list of incoming folders, and a  number of 

> folder collections. Most of these point to LOCAL folders or directories, 

> with just three exceptions:

>

> - in the incoming folders I have two external sites

>  Gsuite {imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert/notls/user=...}

>  RCM {pop.retecivica.milano.it/service=pop3/user=...}

>

> - in the normal collections I have one

>  "All Gsuite" {imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/notls/user=...}[[Gmail]]/[]

>

> - the first is checked SELDOM, it is the inbox on Gsuite which is

>  copied to inbox by fetchmail, every 5 min via crontab. I check it

>  ONLY if I don't want or can't wait 5 min (e.g. site enabling)


You may be able to run fetchmail as a daemon using the imap idle command
which will allow gmail to alert fetchmail that you have new messages,
so no waiting five minutes. This does require a long-running 
connection to gmail but you don't need to set up a TLS link every 
five minutes.

This works well with my provider but I haven't tried it with Gmail
as I just get them to forward my mail ...


> The curious thing is that when, after having just started alpine, I type L 

> to go the collection list screen (usually to navigate to other local 

> collections)

>

> This asks the Gsuite password (but not the RCM password).

>

> Is this an IMAP vs POP issue, or a Gmail vs others ?


... or may be a first (or last) in the list thing ?


> Is it possible to defer password asking only to when one of the external 

> folders is accessed explicitly ?


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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk