Problems with Alpine.

Mark Peveto southernprince73 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 17:01:24 UTC 2016


I'm not a big fan of imap, but since I have 3 different devices that need access to the same account, pop just doesn't work.  Bxluh.

Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Sent from sonar using alpine 2.20.13


On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> It almost sounds like some kind of failure to connect with imap.
>
> > On Jul 6, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Dan Rossi <dr25 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I am not running Linux locally, but using cygwin to ssh into linux boxes at the university.  I use Alpine on the university boxes to read email. At some point, in the last month or two, something must have changed in the configuration of Alpine, but I cannot seem to track it down.  My folder list has disappeared.
> >
> > I mean, if I hit l to bring up my folder list, the only thing that now shows is INBOX, where it used to show a whole list of folders.
> >
> > The behavior gets much more weird though.  If I use the g command to go-to a folder, and I try and tab complete the folder name, it fails with Folder not Found.  However, if I type the whole folder name in, I can then go to that folder.
> >
> > If I attempt to save a message from my inbox to a folder, it fails even if I type the entire folder name in.  Gives me, Folder not found, create it anyway?
> >
> > I don't know what changed, and the system administrators have been slow in getting back to me.  Any ideas from the group?
> >
> >
> > -- Blue skies.
> > Dan Rossi
> > E-Mail:	dr25 at andrew.cmu.edu
> > Tel:	(412) 422-5423
> >
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