You can also check your hcoop email using Alpine. To do so, simply type 'alpine' at the prompt. This will invoke the Alpine client, but as is, it won't be able to access your messages, or send new ones. You will need to configure a few settings first.
- Press s (for Setup) and then c (for Config). This will allow you to make the necessary edits to your .pinerc file.
- Follow the on screen instructions to first enter your desired name under Personal Name. This will fill in the text in the from section on each email that you send. Save this info, and then go down a line.
- For User Domain, type hcoop.net and save this too.
- On the line SMTP Server (for sending), type in mail.hcoop.net/novalidate-cert , and then save the line.
Skip down to the line called Inbox path, and enter the following: mail.hcoop.net/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=your-user-name where your-user-name is, you guessed it, your login name. Save this info.
- As you can see, there are a bazillion other settings that you can customize here, but for now leave them alone, you can come back and change them later. Press e (for Exit Setup).
You have just done everything that you need to do to read incoming mail, and send outgoing messages. The next (and last) thing you will probably want to do, is to get access to other folders that you may have created/want to create.
To do this,
Press m to get back to the Main menu, then press s to enter Setup, then press l for Collection Lists.
- Press c to update the Folder Collection entry.
- In the Nickname field, type IMAP folders.
In the Server field, type imap.hcoop.net/user=username/ssl/novalidate-cert where username is your login id.
- Press ctl-x to exit the setup and y to confirm that you wish to save your changes.
- Press q to quit alpine, and then y to confirm.
- Now back at the prompt, type alpine to start the program again. Alpine will fill in your login id, but you will need to enter your password.
- Press i to view any messages in your inbox.
You can now browse your mail and compose messages using Secure IMAP and Secure SMTP.