[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Steve Litt via Alpine-info]

Karen Lewellen said on Sun, 26 May 2024 22:14:14 -0400 (EDT)


>Chime,

>I still agree with some others.

>  Speaking personally, the most efficient way to interface gmail with

> alpine 

>is to use Imap create an app password specifically for alpine, and 

>configure  accordingly.

>Although there are steps, once done, my own gmail account works just

>fine with  Alpine.

>granted, I am using ssh to reach the mail server where alpine is 

>configured, but it works.

>Karen


If you can use Alpine to view email on gmail's IMAP server, then you
can use fetchmail and procmail to load your own Dovecot server from any
old IMAP or POP3, and view your emails there (much faster and more
reliably). And you can back them up.

This is a fair amount of work but I think it's easier than keeping up
with all gmail's ongoing inconvenient changes.

SteveT

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