[TriLUG] Alpine and webmail for trilug members

[Roy Vestal]

Ahh…Well the old system had pine, not alpine, so I'll check the setup there.

I have been using Thunderbird for the past few … years (decade perhaps?) . A recent update to my Mac seems to have killed thunderbird or the recent thunderbird update has killed it. I only use pine/alpine as a backup. So I tried the web mail and it failed too. So currently TriLUG is part of my work mail client, which I do not want.

Is there a timeline for the web mail or is it gone for good?

-Roy


On 2013 3 12, at 12:43, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:

> On 03/12/2013 10:56 AM, Roy Vestal wrote:
>> I tried alpine from login.trilug.org today and it said my mail isn't there. I tried the webmail as per the member FAQ and it's not working. Has this changed?
>> 
>> -Roy
> 
> I am not sure what Alpine is expecting.  On pilot, we have an IMAP server that stores your mail in Maildir format in your $HOME/Maildir .
> 
> In 2009, pilot was compromised, and so I rebuilt it from scratch at that time.  Before then, the mail directories were in a different place, somewhere outside of user's homes, something like /var/lib/cyrus.  If you have not used email on pilot since next-to-forever, it might be looking in the old place.
> 
> Now I see that the FAQ contains a lot of pre-2009 info.  For example:
> 
> * We are NOT running Cyrus IMAPd, we are running dovecot.
> * The sieve link does not work (instead, you set up sieve rules in
>   your own $HOME/.sieve file).
> * The link to the webmail client does not work for two reasons: (1)
>   all HTTPS traffic on pilot gets directed to the steering wiki and
>   (2) we never reinstalled RoundCube after the break-in in 2009
>   because that was the package that the intruders used to get in.
> 
> Sorry for the outdated info on the wiki.  It's a bit of a surprise that we have not heard complaints in the last 4 years.
> 
> Right now, the only external access to trilug.org email is IMAPS. From the shell, several users have had good luck with mutt.  I'd bet alpine could also work OK, but you'd need to configure it to access your mail store at either the IMAP the address or the local storage in $HOME/Maildir.
> 
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