I have been following this discussion with interest. Talking about
alpine or pine and elm reminds me of my days in the Grad school twenty
years ago. I remember using these applications with my university Unix
system for email. However, at that time we got our email accounts
already setup for us. I have never had to do the setup myself.
I launched alpine in a terminal, and I hit S for setup, then C for
configration. However, I was lost in that screen because I did not know
where I am. I knew that I had to enter my personal name and the imap
server, and the smtp server etc. The problem is that moving into these
fields with the arrows does not work. I get no speech at all.
How do you guys deal with this screen?
Cheers,
Ibrahim
On 11/14/21 4:27 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Use the w key and you'll be prompted for a search string.
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Looking at alpine, the first thing I noticed is that I can set an inbox path
and an smtp server, but I can't seem to set an imap server, and I couldn't
immediately find the encryption, port and authentication settings even for
smtp. I really do like the menu interface, most of it with single-key mnemonic
functions, but there's just too much here that I can't seem to figure out,
like how to set up imap email, although I do know that it's possible. Problem
is even reading the man page isn't helping me get through all the config
options, and only my page-up, page-down, home and end keys are navigating
through the configurations, making it difficult to set a single option, and I
don't see any show cursor or similar command line option that will allow my
screen reader to speak the configuration I would be setting. Unfortunately,
even the most inaccessible desktop email applications make it easy enough to
set up a mailbox using imap and smtp settings, complete with
security/encryption and authentication. I think what I'm looking for is some
kind of "setup new mailbox" menu selection, but I don't immediately see that.
It seems it looks good for local mail, but I'm not finding any remote mailbox
setup. I did see message threading options, which definitely helps with that
issue, but remote mailbox configuration definitely needs to be easier to do
right from the setup menu or the main screen that I see when I open alpine.
~Kyle
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