SYNCING U-MAIL USING PINE/ALPINE

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HOW TO SYNC YOUR U-MAIL USING PINE/ALPINE

Joe Gaucho offers advice on syncing your U-mail with Pine/Alpine
(c) 2011 UC Regents, Bernice Chen, November 17, 2011.

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Visit http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/pcpine.html to download the latest version of PC-Pine and launch the setup_pine program to begin installation On the configuration setup, configure the fields with the following information, then click OK: Use configuration file stored on IMAP server [not checked] Use local configuration file [checked] Configuration file name [default]

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Configure the mail server with the following configurations, then click OK to complete the installation: Personal Name: [your name] Email Address UCSBnetID@umail.ucsb.edu Mail Server: incoming.umail.ucsb.edu/ssl This server is an IMAP server [checked] This server is a POP3 server [not checked] Login name (optional): UCSBnetID SMTP server outgoing.umail.ucsb.edu:587/tls/user=UCSBnetID

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4. Next, edit the PC-Pine configuration file in a text editor (such as Notepad). The configuration file is in the location you saved the program in, and it usually located in C:\Program Files\PCPine\pinerc.
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Once the configuration file has been opened, change the settings with the following information: personal-name [your name] user-id UCSBnetID user-domain umail.ucsb.edu smtp-server outgoing.umail.ucsb.edu:587/tls/user=UCSBnetID inbox-path {incoming.umail.ucsb.edu/user=UCSBnetID/ssl} default-fcc sent-mail default-saved-msg-folder saved-messages postponed-folder postponed-msgs folder-collections U-Mail {incoming.umail.ucsb.edu/ssl/user=UCSBnetID}inbox.[] disable-these-authenticators PLAIN

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Save the new changes once you are done editing this file. Congratulations! You have successfully synced your U-mail with Pine/Alpine.

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