E-mail: Using Pine on the Mac
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The short answer to "How do I use Pine on the Mac?" is that you really can't. The new accepted terminal-based e-mail client is Alpine -- it's free and open, unlike Pine which is not and is being discontinued. They're about the same thing functionality-wise, it's just Alpine will continue to be updated.
That being said, if you're running MacOS X 10.4, you might try MacPine, a binary provided by the University of Washington:
MacPine: http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/MacPine/
If you're running MacOS X 10.5, you can download Alpine from the Apple Download site:
Alpine: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/alpineemailclient.html
Configuring Pine/Alpine for DavisMail:
- In your DavisMail preferences, enable POP or IMAP access under 'settings'
- In Alpine, go to Config, and set your inbox-path to the following (pop/imap, POP3/IMAP4):
- {pop.gmail.com/POP3/SSL/novalidate-cert/user=YOUR-EMAIL@gmail.com}INBOX
- In Alpine, configure your smtp-server as follows:
- smtp.gmail.com/user=YOUR-EMAIL@gmail.com/ssl/novalidate-cert
- Save settings and restart Alpine.