[Alpine-info] incoming collections (and not)

[Carlos E. R.]

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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?

- -- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
        (from openSUSE 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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