Pine

This FAQ gives a step by step guideline on how to configure pine for your Berkeley bMail account.

You will first need to be sure that your bMail account has IMAP enabled, and that you have created a bConnected Key.

• Enable IMAP in your Gmail settings
• How to create a bConnected Key

• Quick Pine Configuration
• Viewing your bMail Inbox
• Viewing your bMail folders
• Viewing bMail folder subdirectories
• Using local mail resources
• Moving mail from local folders to bMail folders & vice-versa

Quick Pine Configuration

Make a .pinerc file in your home directory.

It has generic parameters that should work on Unix hosts in the EECS department. Or follow GUI configuration steps Viewing bMail Inbox, folders, & subdirectories in order to create the .pinerc file.

Viewing your bMail Inbox

1. SSH to login.eecs.berkeley.edu or other UNIX server using pine 4.30 or later. At the Unix prompt, type “pine” (without the quotations) and press Enter to begin Pine.
2. If this is your first time accessing Pine on login.eecs, then a welcome screen will appear.Press Enter/Return or the “E” key to access the Pine Main Menu.
3. Move the cursor down to “Setup” and press Enter.
4. Press the “C” Key to go to the Configurations screen, and scroll down to “inbox-path”.
5. Press the “C” Key again to “Change Value” and change inbox-path to: 
   {imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=YOURUSERNAME@berkeley.edu}INBOX
   
6. Similarly, change the smtp-server variable to: 
   smtp.gmail.com/ssl/user=YOURUSERNAME@berkeley.edu
7. Change the user-domain variable to: EECS.berkeley.EDU
8. Exit Setup by pressing “E” and press “Y” to commit the changes.
9. Quit Pine by scrolling down to “Quit” or Pressing “Q” and pressing Enter. When you next restart Pine, you will be prompted to authenticate to imap.gmail.com/ssl using your bConnected Key.

Viewing your bMail folders

This only works if you select enable-incoming-folders in your Main [m,s,c] config.

1. From the Pine Main Menu, choose “S” for Setup.
2. Press “L” to view your Pine Collection List (the list of subscribed bMail folders which is currently set up to operate with Pine) and then press “A” to add a collection list. Type in the information as shown for the first two linesNickname=bMail folders
Server: imap.gmail.com/sslbut leave the “Path” and “View” lines blank. Hold down the “Ctrl” key and press “X” when finished to save the entry.
3. Type in login (username@berkeley.edu) and password (bConnected Key) if prompted, and then “Y” to save changes and “E” to exit setup.
4. To view your folders: From the Pine Main Menu, press “L”, scroll down to “bMail folders”, and press Enter. All of your folders should be visible and can be opened by highlighting with the cursor and pressing Enter.

Viewing bMail folder subdirectories

1. From the Pine Main Menu, choose “S” for Setup.
2. Press “C” to go to the Configure screen, and scroll down to “enable-lame-list-mode” under Folder Preferences.
3. Press “X” to enable this setting, and then “E” to exit setup. Press “Y” to commit changes when prompted.
4. To view your subdirectories: From your list of folders, to view the subdirectories in a folder, scroll down to the folder containing subdirectories and press “>”. To view messages within the folder instead of a list of subdirectories, press “Enter”.

Using Local Mail Resources

1. From the Pine Main Menu, choose “S” for Setup.
2. Press “L” to go to the Collection List, and press “A” to add a collection. Type a nickname for this new collection (“Local folders” is standard) and type the location of the folders (“Mail/” in this case).
3. Press “Ctrl-X” to save this setting, and then press “Y” to commit changes when prompted. Press “E” to exit setup.
4. From the Pine Main Menu, press “L”, scroll down to “Local folders”, and press Enter. All of your folders should be visible and can be opened by highlighting with the cursor and pressing Enter.

Moving mail from local folders to bMail

1. From the Pine Main Menu, choose “S” for Setup, then “C” for Configure. Verify that “enable-aggregate-command-set” under the advanced options is checked.
2. Navigate to a folder you’d like to copy from. (From the Pine Main Menu, press “L”, scroll down to “Local folders”, and press Enter. All of your folders should be visible and can be opened by highlighting with the cursor and pressing Enter.)
3. Press “;” (the semicolon) and choose your selection criteria. Once chosen, press “A” to select all items which meet the criteria. Press “A” to apply changes, “S” to save (to a different location), and then “Ctrl-T” (the goto folders command) and navigate to your target destination.
4. Press Enter twice to complete the move.

A similar procedure may be used to copy bMail mail to local folders.