Read your e-mail via terminal

This is a simple tutorial to show you how to read your e-mail by using the Linux terminal in Ubuntu distribution.
It may sounds like a geek, but it is indeed easy to be applied inside your Ubuntu. Alpine 2.0 client mail is the right answer to do this. It is kinda interesting to know that this e-mail client is quite different with the other e-mail client. It only need Command Line Interface(CLI) instead of Graphical User Interface(GUI). You even can access the e-mail without accessing your XWindow by using alpine.

Installation code:

sudo apt-get install alpine

After the installation, you can access alpine by typing “alpine” (without double code) inside your terminal.

Furthermore, here is the configuration of gmail client:

Lets say your e-mail is: jonathan@gmail.com

Personal name=Jonathan

User domain=gmail.com

SMTP server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/user=jonathan@gmail.com

Inbox path={pop.gmail.com/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=indie@gmail.com}INBOX

Update(Saving your gmail password)

Maybe it’s kinda annoying when you have to enter your password every-time you need to get into your e-mail directly, so this is the easy way to set your password:

Open up your terminal, change directories to your home directory, cd ~/, and then type in touch .pine-passfile.  After that, run Alpine.  It will ask you for your password on start-up, and on sending an email, only to save your password indefinitely so that you no longer have to type in your password all the time.

Enjoy!