[Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

Carlos E. R. robin.listas at telefonica.net
Fri Dec 22 12:23:38 PST 2023


On 2023-12-22 19:55, Paolo wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:

>

>>>

>>> As I wrote, I have sync the mail to a new server (both use Dovecot,

>>> different versions, but I think this isn't interesing).

>>>

>>

>> Then, why are you trying to tell alpine to access the files directly,

>> instead of using dovecot?

>

> I was supposing Alpine is using dovecot to access the folders (it

> authenticate on startup), but probably there is some path/prefix that

> need to be configured. And I can't find the configuration that give me a

> normal operanting situation.



You just tell Alpine the imap server and folder to use, same as with any
external mail server. Not the local path.

Example:

folder-collections="local imap" {localhost/novalidate-cert/user=YOURSER}[],

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

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