This file provides notes for users of the Alpine package. == Sending email == By default, alpine doesn't know how to send email. If your system is configured with a working local mail transport agent, you can configure PINE to do SMTP to localhost by pressing these keys: M (Main screen) S (Setup) C (Configuration) Navigate to the smtp-server entry, press enter, and type "localhost". Press enter again. E (Exit setup) Y ("Yes" replaces settings) System administrators may want to set smtp-server in the /etc/pinerc. == Maildir == The package for pine in Debian provides a patch to let it read Maildir-style mail boxes. This package does not yet provide that functionality. I am looking for a moderately good solution for this, as per Debian bug #405762. == Passfile == The washington.edu developers of Alpine and Pine have a feature they implemented but don't like called "passfile". This lets users store their passwords in a file so they don't have to type it each time they run the mail program. This feature is similar to "Save password" features in Thunderbird, Icedove, Evolution, and other mail user agents that are or have been in Debian. In this package, the file ~/.pine-passfile is where Alpine stores its obfuscated password. NOTE: If you save your password here, and someone else can get a copy of this file, then that person has your password! == Bugs == If you have problems with this package and are using Debian, please submit a bug using the Debian bug reporting system. The easiest way to do this is to use the program "reportbug" as packaged in Debian. If you are using a Debian-derived distribution, you may have a modified package. For example, if you are using Ubuntu, and the alpine package version number contains the word "ubuntu" in it, then it is probably modified. Modified packages' bugs should be submitted with the bug tracker of the group that did the modifying. But if you have an unmodified package, even running on a non-Debian system, it should be okay to file bugs against the Debian bug tracker. Information on how to do that is available at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting - see the "Example" section.