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

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote:


> [...]

>   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=chris at cwm030.com}INBOX,


Thank you Carlos for taking the time to investigate. The only correction 
that I would make is that the above configuration needs to be

incoming-folders=...
    "fastmail" {imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=chris at cwm030.com}INBOX,

The effect of /tls is to do STARTTLS, which is normally done in port 143, 
not in port 993, which is where /ssl is set by default.

-- 
Eduardo