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By now I assume you've experimented with Alpine, as a character-based email client. Well, I have another tip for you....
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Category: alpine email
By now I assume you've experimented with Alpine, as a character-based email client. Well, I have another tip for you....
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Category: Linux
By default, the text-based email client 'alpine' requests a password the first time, per session, that it is requested a password from any email services it checks. For the duration of that session, it remembers the password, but forgets it if you quit alpine so...
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Category: Linux
For today's Linux Hint: How to pick which browser will open when you pick a link while using apine in Ubuntu....
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Category: Linux
If you are using alpine as your email client, you may find that hitting ctrl-T to invoke a spell checker does not work, in alpine 1.0 as installed in Ubuntu. It is easy to fix....
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:24 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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