How do I setup pine with the exchange server?
NOTE This is only if you use the @liv.ac.uk servers, not sune.amtp.liv.ac.uk.
These changes will mean you access the central exchange mail server directly from your localhost and NOT the @amtp.liv.ac.uk mail. If you need to retain both for a while I suggest using thunderbird from local linux and configure it as per here
The 'seamless' move to the new Micros**t exchange system isn't quite so seamless with pine on our machines (the CSD Unix service ones are ok though).
The smtp-server line of .pinerc should read
smtp-server=mail1.liv.ac.uk
and the inbox-path line should read (replace username with your's)
inbox-path={imap.liv.ac.uk/user=username/novalidate-cert/ssl}inbox
and make sure the domain-name is set to @liv.ac.uk otherwise mail will look as though it is sent from localhost.
user-domain=liv.ac.uk
It seems ok to leave everything else the same, and the novalidate-cert flag
mightn't be necessary but I get complaints from pine if I don't include it.
Editing dotfiles
Some of you might have found that you can't find the file .pinerc in your home directory. This is because it is a dotfile, a file written by an application to hold your preferences. The ls command doesn't show these up because if it did your home directory listing would be huge. You can see which dotfiles are there by issuing the command
ls -a
Now that you know it's there you can just edit it with your favourite text editor (N.B. this won't show up in the 'Open File' box of GUI text editors, they seem trained to ignore dotfiles - do it all from the command line).
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