alpine - setup OK, unable to send email

As you can see here, I was able to setup alpine via IMPA: just OK http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/net...l-program.html

Sadly, I cannot send any email... Does alpine need something like sendmail or qmail or such installed on my system (cause there isn't)

I can read, delete, sort, search emails. I can also edit/write new emails. But alpine cannot actually send an email! I tried searching the FAQ's and readme's and man page but nowhere is mentioned if alpine needs something like sendmail for actually sending an email...

The error alpine gives me is this:

Code:

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[Mail not sent: Bad sequence of commands]

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DuckDuckGoing for that gave no helpful results, either...

Any tips, any ideas?

You probably just need to configure the right SMTP server. There's probably a way to do if via the curses "alpine" admin screens, but I think it's easier to just edit the ".pinerc" file. Search for the "smtp-server=" line and put the domain name and port of the SMTP server you want to use. For instance, for GMail this might work.

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smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587

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You can specify multiple SMTP servers separated by commas if you want. If the SMTP server requires things like a different user/domain to authenticate you can include things like "/user=myuser@some.other.domain.com" along with the domain name and port.

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I already have put that in .pinerc. Sorry I forgot to post that in my initial post.

This is what's in my .pinerc:

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smtp-server=mail.gmx.net:587/tls/user="my-username@gmx.de"

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According to the info I got from gmx.de itself 587 and tls should be the right port and the correct secure protocol... but like I said, all I get is the above posted error, and I don't find any more info on alpine and gmx, or on that error alpine gives me...

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"my-username@gmx.de" is of course, my true username at gmx.de, and I put that in without the quotes...

I read a bunch of different e-mail's from Alpine and not all of them are hosted on GMail. So my SMTP was pointing to another service provider. But I was able to get it working against the Google servers using the following config line.

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smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:465/user=USERNAME/ssl

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And yeah, I tried port 587 at first since it was in my notes from before as well. But that failed with TLS errors so I found this page,

What Are the Gmail SMTP Settings? - About Email

that claims 465 is the SSL port.

Mine was not SSL but TLS, and the port is the one gmx itself named. Anyway, that's not helping when it's not working...

I try yours instead and post here if it worked, or not...

Code:

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mail.gmx.net:465/user=username/ssl

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Won't sent, won't ask for password...

Code:

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mail.gmx.net/notls:465/user=username/ssl

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asks for Server Password, but then again:
[Mail not sent: Bad sequence of commands]

:(

Asking for a password is normal, but it should only ask the once per Alpine session. Meaning, after you enter your password the first time you send a mail message, the program will cache that info and not bother you until you again quit the program.

Also, if you're still having trouble, why not setup a GMail account and try that just to verify your client is working? Then you can switch back to the "gmx.net" domain after you know you have a working config.

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Originally Posted by cnamejj

Also, if you're still having trouble, why not setup a GMail account and try that just to verify your client is working? Then you can switch back to the "gmx.net" domain after you know you have a working config.

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Seems, I have no other choice for now... Not that I want to have a gmail to start with... but when by all I tried gmx won't work... I have to find different ways approaching the issue, and getting another mail provider to work with alpine and smtp is a start...

Like always, will keep you updated on here. [s]Someone might lurk, or use duckduckgo or such when having a similar issue like me, and will be happy if I found the solution and not kept that to myself...[/s]