Pine Configuration

The linux 'pine' utility can be used to access the campus student.uml.edu mail server, via the imap protocol.  The configuration is done via the pine program and the modification of the pine configuration file, .pinerc, found in your home directory.

Start Pine:

Choose Setup and then Config and fill in these settings:

personal-name Your Name

smtp-server exchange.uml.edu/tls/user=username@student.uml.edu

inbox-path {exchange.uml.edu/ssl/user=username@student.uml.edu}inbox

default-fcc {exchange.uml.edu/ssl/user=username@student.uml.edu}Sent Items

Exit out of the configuration screen and from pine.

Use a text editor to modify the .pinerc file:

These settings will allow pine to send messages as your username@student.uml.edu address through the campus mail server. Without this, it will try to send them as your CS account name, which will not work. The 'enable-incoming-folders' entry also lets you specify access to your INBOX on other IMAP servers, like gmail.

Find "feature-list" string in .pinerc and modify as:

feature_list=enable-incoming-folders, allow-changing-from

Find "customized-hdrs' and modify with:

customized-hdrs=From: Your Real Name <username@student.uml.edu>

This setting will allow pine to see all of your folders that you see in the webmail GUI, most importantly the 'Sent Items' folder. Within pine you can create more folders that will be visible from the webmail.student.uml.edu gui.

Find "folder-collections" and modify as:

folder-collections="My Folders" {exchange.uml.edu/ssl}[*]

You can add more 'folder collections' to give you access to other folders on other mail servers or existing mail folders under your linux account. Remember to put a comma after each entry except for the last one.

This is an example of an entry that will let you see your student.uml.edu mail folders and mail that you might have saved under your local Mail directory on linux.

folder-collections="My Folders" {exchange.uml.edu/ssl}[*], "CS Mail Folder" Mail/[]