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services:email:clients [2021/07/15 14:46]
giunta [Email Clients Setup Guidelines]
services:email:clients [2021/12/09 12:53]
giunta [Email Clients Setup Guidelines]
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 ====== Email Clients Setup Guidelines ====== ====== Email Clients Setup Guidelines ======
  
-Here you can find some brief guidelines about setting your email clients.+Here you can find some brief guidelines about setting your email clients. When a ''​username''​ and a ''​password''​ are requested, use your SISSA credentials. The username **MUST** be always followed by **@sissa.it** domain.
  
-  * [[:​services:​email:​clients:​evolution|GNOME Evolution]] (Linux)+  ​* [[:​services:​email:​clients:​macosmail|Apple Mail]] (macOS 10.10 or later) 
 +  ​* [[:​services:​email:​clients:​evolution|GNOME Evolution]] (version 3.27.91 or later) 
 +  * [[:​services:​email:​clients:​thunderbird|Mozilla Thunderbird]] (version 78 or later) 
 +    * [[:​services:​email:​local-email-archive|Archiving e-mails to local folders]] 
 +  * [[:​services:​email:​clients:​winmail|Windows Mail / Posta]] (Windows 10, also applicable to **Microsoft Outlook** client)
  
-===== ALPINE =====+==== Mobile device ​====
  
-Alpine will be forced to read e-mail using IMAP. So the first time Alpine will ask for your SISSA **username** and **password**. If you wish to save the password, to avoid to enter it every time you run Alpine, answer ​ "​**Y**"​ to question ''​Preserve password on DISK for next login?''​Your password will be **encrypted** and saved in the file **.alpine.passfile** in your home directory.+  ​[[https://​support.microsoft.com/​office/​set-up-email-in-android-email-app-71147974-7aca-491b-978a-ab15e360434c|Android built-in email app]] 
 +  ​[[https://​support.microsoft.com/​office/​set-up-an-outlook-account-on-the-ios-mail-app-7e5b180f-bc8f-45cc-8da1-5cefc1e633d1|Apple iPhone/iPad iOS Mail app]]
  
-Since [[http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/info/​alpine.html|Alpine 2.10]], a personal SMIME certificate is used to [[http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/info/encryptpwd.html|encrypt the password file]]. Alpine will ask the user to create a ''​master password'',​ which will unlock access to the password file in future access during the same Alpine session.+  * [[https://support.microsoft.com/office/set-up-email-in-the-outlook-for-android-app-886db551-8dfa-4fd5-b835-f8e532091872|Outlook for Android]] 
 +  * [[https://support.microsoft.com/office/set-up-an-outlook-account-in-the-ios-mail-app-b2de2161-cc1d-49ef-9ef9-81acd1c8e234|Outlook for Apple iPhone/iPad iOS]]
  
-To avoid being asked to enter the ''​master password''​ every time you start Alpine, while not recommended,​ you can create a SMIME certificate //without// any private key's password:+==== Text-based email client ====
  
-<​code>​ +  * [[:​services:​email:​clients:​alpine|Alpine]] (former Pine)
-mkdir -p $HOME/.alpine-smime/​public $HOME/​.alpine-smime/​.pwd $HOME/​.alpine-smime/​private $HOME/​.alpine-smime/​ca+
  
-openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout $HOME/​.alpine-smime/​.pwd/​MasterPassword.key -out $HOME/​.alpine-smime/​.pwd/​MasterPassword.crt -days 10000 -nodes -subj "/​C=IT/​ST=Friuli Venezia Giulia/​L=Trieste/​O=SISSA/​CN=$USER/​emailAddress=${USER}@sissa.it"​ 
- 
-touch $HOME/​.alpine.passfile 
-</​code>​ 
- 
-=== To see the e-mails in a folder === 
- 
-    * select the folder using the arrows (for example //​Sent//​); ​ 
-    * type **<​ENTER>​**. 
- 
-=== To see the contents of hierarchical folders === 
- 
-   * select the folder using the arrows (for example //​pippo[.]//​);​ 
-   * type " **>** " (and NOT **<​ENTER>​** !!!); 
-   * then you can see the e-mails inside it and its sub-folders names. 
-   * to return to a higher level folder press the  " **<** " key. 
- 
-=== To create new folders === 
- 
-   * type " **L** " (''​ListFldrs''​) then  type " **a** " (''​add''​);​ 
-   * Alpine will ask you the new //​foldername//​. 
-   * if you now want a new sub-folder inside an existing folder, you have to type //​foldername.newsubfoldername//​ . 
- 
-=== To display/​hide the complete header === 
-To display/​hide the complete header of an e-mail press " **h** ".