[Alpine-info] incoming collections (and not)
Carlos E. R.
robin.listas at telefonica.net
Sun Jan 1 14:01:15 PST 2023
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El 2023-01-01 a las 21:47 -0000, Andrew C Aitchison escribió:
> 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)
I use
"imap Ggl L" {imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=... at gmail.com}INBOX,
with an application password. Certificates work :-)
>> Is it possible to defer password asking only to when one of the external
>> folders is accessed explicitly ?
>
>
> 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 ...
I understand that in this mode fetchmail can only do one account.
>> 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 ?
How about using a master password instead?
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
(from openSUSE 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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