Configuring pine to read mail from the exchange server

This is only available to University Employees.

If you do not know your Exchange username and/or password contact the help desk at phone number *45HELP or (303)315-4357

Here are some items that need to be changed in your ~/.pinerc file to enable pine you to read IMAP mail from the exchange server.

Use your own Exchange user name rather than username.
Use your real Exchange name not Firstname.Lastname.

Edit lines with parameters as follows. You will find that these lines are blank following the = by default.


incoming-folders=Exchange_INBOX {webmail.cudenver.edu/ssl/user=username}INBOX

folder-collections=Mail mail/[], Exchange_FOLDERS {webmail.cudenver.edu/ssl/user=username}[]

feature-list=enable-incoming-folders

customized-hdrs = From: FirstName.LastName@cudenver.edu

If you find your user ID and password do not work with pine and you have confirmed that it works when loging in at http://www.cudenver.edu/webmail.html you may need to contact Anna.George@cudenver.edu and ask about having her make sure your alias matches your user ID on the exchange server.

if you want pine to save your password so you do not need to keep typing it, then create a empty .pine.pwd password file using:

touch ~/.pine.pwd

Next time you login to the exchange server you will have the option of saving your password in encripted form to ~/.pine.pwd

When you no longer need your math INBOX then you can eliminate the above modifications to:

incoming-folders=
feature-list=

then add:

inbox-path=Exchange_INBOX {webmail.cudenver.edu/ssl/user=username}INBOX

This way you will have just one INBOX from Exchange