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biku

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Nov 8, 2009, 7:58:30 AM11/8/09
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how am i to configure alpine email client to use my free yahoo mail
account? i have
configured one gmail account using 'CollectionLists' and 'Rules' in
alpine.

Wanna-Be Sys Admin

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Nov 16, 2009, 3:02:55 PM11/16/09
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biku wrote:

Never heard of it, this is likely not related to Linux.
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Jon Solberg

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Nov 16, 2009, 3:46:23 PM11/16/09
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On 2009-11-16, Wanna-Be Sys Admin <sysa...@example.com> wrote:
> biku wrote:
>
>> how am i to configure alpine email client to use my free yahoo mail
>> account? i have configured one gmail account using
>> 'CollectionLists' and 'Rules' in alpine.
>
> Never heard of it, this is likely not related to Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_%28e-mail_client%29. Alpine is
rewrite of the Pine email client with Unicode support. So the client
is related to Linux, the question not. The OP should simply refer to
Alpine's documentation.

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David W. Hodgins

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Nov 16, 2009, 3:52:50 PM11/16/09
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:02:55 -0500, Wanna-Be Sys Admin <sysa...@example.com> wrote:

> biku wrote:
>> how am i to configure alpine email client to use my free yahoo mail

> Never heard of it, this is likely not related to Linux.

Looks like alpine can run under linux.
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/

I've never used alpine, but with opera, for yahoo, I've set the
pop server to pop.mail.yahoo.ca port 995, secure connection (tls),
with plaintext authentication. The smtp server is set to
smtp.mail.yahoo.ca, port 465, secure connection.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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John Thompson

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Nov 16, 2009, 9:05:41 PM11/16/09
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On 2009-11-16, Wanna-Be Sys Admin <sysa...@example.com> wrote:

> biku wrote:
>
>> how am i to configure alpine email client to use my free yahoo mail
>> account? i have
>> configured one gmail account using 'CollectionLists' and 'Rules' in
>> alpine.
>
> Never heard of it, this is likely not related to Linux.

"Alpine" is the apache-licensed implementation of the venerable "pine"
mail client and is used by several linux distributions that act to
avoid non-free (as in speech) licensed code. Pine is distributed under a
University of Washington license that is not felt to be fully compatible
with GPL type software.

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-John (jo...@os2.dhs.org)

Bill Marcum

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Nov 16, 2009, 6:24:58 PM11/16/09
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On 2009-11-16, Wanna-Be Sys Admin <sysa...@example.com> wrote:
> biku wrote:
>
>> how am i to configure alpine email client to use my free yahoo mail
>> account? i have
>> configured one gmail account using 'CollectionLists' and 'Rules' in
>> alpine.
>
> Never heard of it, this is likely not related to Linux.

I think I've answered this question once. Yahoo's free email service doesn't
provide POP or IMAP, but a program called fetchyahoo can be used to download
mail so it can be read with a standard email client.

Wanna-Be Sys Admin

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Nov 17, 2009, 4:38:08 PM11/17/09
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Jon Solberg wrote:

Pardon, I figured I could have looked, but the question of how to
configure it to work with Yahoo! mail led me to believe it's unrelated
to this group (about Linux, rather than just settings on an application
that can run on Linux). Not a big deal though.

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