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Your shiny, new tilde.club account comes with an email account. alpine is a command-line email application to use it, as is mutt. Good old-fashioned mail works too, although it's a little cryptic.
alpine is menu driven, and the menus are self-explanatory; it's surprisingly easy to learn, and surprisingly powerful when you want to customize it.
From the command line (after logged in via SSH), type: pine and [return]
Follow instructions and use the menus at the bottom and top. (Note: When you see the ^ in front of the letter it means you need to use CTRL, otherwise just use the letter.)
non-cli options
alternatively, you can use the webmail or standard imap/smtp.
some clients will automatically detect the right settings (tested with thunderbird).
connection settings:
- imap.tilde.club port 993 with ssl
- pop3.tilde.club port 995 with ssl
- smtp.tilde.club port 587 with starttls
please remember to use only your tilde username as the login name, excluding the @tilde.club; for example invalid instead of invalid@tilde.club
if you'd like your @tilde.club mail forwarded elsewhere, you can put an email
address in a file called ~/.forward
sieve filtering
our dovecot configuration supports sieve and managesieve.
this means that you should put your scripts in a ~/sieve/ directory,
symlink the active script to ~/.dovecot.sieve, and make sure to compile it
with sievec ~/.dovecot.sieve.
you can find some example sieve scripts here.
alternately, you can use webmail's filter settings to configure your filters.
mailing list
we now have an official mailing list!
if your account is old (pre sept 2019), you should be subscribed with the email you originally signed up with. if your account is newer (post sept 2019), then you should be subscribed with your @tilde.club address. if you don't fit either of those categories, you can subscribe by visiting the web portal or by sending a mail to tildeclub-subscribe@lists.tildeverse.org with "subscribe" in the subject line. in either case, you can change the email you're subscribed with on the web portal or by unsubscribing and re-subscribing from the other address.
list archives are available on the web here.
as of september 17, 2019, we're still seeing quite a few pending mails to gmail, yahoo, and fastmail. help get our list delivered by making sure to mark list messages as not spam and adding the list address to your contacts. if you're feeling especially motivated, please reach out to the support on your mail provider and ask them to look into why you're not receiving the messages.
Mailbox Format
Tilde.club uses Dovecot as a local mail delivery agent
as well as an IMAP server.
It is configured to deliver your emails
into a .mail/ subdirectory
within your home directory on the server,
structured in Courier MTA's Maildir++ format.
Maildir++ format is essentially the same as Maildir mailbox format,
but with a concept of subfolders added in:
apart from the usual cur/,
new/,
and tmp/ subdirectories for normal Maildir operations;
there would now also be dot-subdirectories
which are email subfolders.
Each dot-subdirectory
would contain usual Maildir subdirectories,
but not any more dot-subdirectory inside it.
In Tilde.club, the default layout of your Maildir++ folder hierarchy would be as the following:
| Email Folder | Filesystem Directory |
|---|---|
| (Inbox) | ~/.mail/ |
| (Sent) | ~/.mail/.sent-mail/ |
| Junk | ~/.mail/.Junk/ |
| Drafts | ~/.mail/.Drafts/ |
| Trash | ~/.mail/.Trash/ |
So, if you would like to use command line tools to tinker with your mailbox, then more power to you. Also, note that email access via IMAP and webmail actually read/write emails directly onto these directories; so now you know where to grab a copy of all your emails data if you ever need a backup as well.