Recently I’ve been getting more and more interested in the command line interface (CLI) and finding ways to do things without a graphical environment. This is only good for so much, however, as most of the things that I do on a computer involve some type of image.

This is one of the reasons I’ve started using Debian. But I won’t go into that yet because I:

A) can’t be bothered and

B) don’t really know what I am doing

A large part of what I do on the Internet involves some type of email thing. So I had used a CLI-based email client for a while before this on a remote computer running BSD but I’d never really figured out how to get it to do what I needed it to do in order to be useful. Today was the day that that all ended:

The following are a series of emails I sent to myself to test my SMTP and IMAP settings. The email addresses have been edited to ensure that my identity is kept a secret from the world because, as a blogger, I am very frightened of the repercussions my blogs with incur IRL. NB: I have inverted the order of the emails so you don’t have to read them from the most recent, descending.

EDIT: this was nested in pre tags before but whatever server I’m on decided to be fckn lame and made it look stupid. After that it removed all of the special characters thanks to the HTML standards or something so I just put it all in blockquotes nested and shit just like you aren’t meant to do.

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:32:32 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Zach Doney zachdoney@gmail.com
To: zach@freeshell.org
Subject: getting my test on, boy

Basically, I am getting my test on – it’s time to
get 1337 and there is only one way to do that.

2009/3/10 Zach Doney zach@sdf.lonestar.org
Robby’s my booooooooy!

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:13:22 +1300
From: Zach zachdoney@gmail.com
To: Zach Doney zach@sdf.lonestar.org
Subject: Re: getting my test on, boy

yeah

2009/3/10 Zach Doney zach@sdf.lonestar.org
hopefully you figure out how to get that IMAP thing working.
It’d be cool to access gmail from alpine. Then you could do
it here and be able to get your stuff whenever you needed it
like that time you haxxed at Unlimited.

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Zach wrote:
not yet, apparently

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:22:19 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Zach Doney zachdoney@gmail.com
To: Zach zachdoney@gmail.com
Subject: Re: getting my test on, boy

Well, I’ve got it now. Who cares if the time of IMAP and SMTP
and non-web-based mail clients is over? I’ve got three inboxes
pointed at one client! This is what I’ve actually been wanting
to do for fckn ages! Now I don’t have to check, like, 50
different accounts! Fuck that webmail shit.

“What do you do on the Internet?”
“You know, read blogs, fckbk, steal music.”
“Oh! I read a blog once! It was about the type of music I should listen to. What type of blogs do you read?”
“Well, mostly the usual apart from this one where some guy sends emails to himself and then blogs about it.”
“…”
“The last email on the list came from the same account.”

If any of you want to know how to set up Alpine to do this I WILL POST A HOW-TO! I might even do it anyway, but we’ll see.

NO IMAGES BECAUSE FUCK IMAGES

Written by: Zach.
Tags: alpine, IMAP, nerd@nerd.com.