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title: email
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author:
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- benharri
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- xwindows
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category: tutorial
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---
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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.
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`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.
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From the command line (after logged in via SSH), type: `pine` and `[return]`
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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.)
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## non-cli options
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alternatively, you can use the [webmail](https://webmail.tilde.club/) or standard imap/smtp.
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some clients will automatically detect the right settings (tested with thunderbird).
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connection settings:
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- imap.tilde.club port 993 with ssl
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- pop3.tilde.club port 995 with ssl
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- smtp.tilde.club port 587 with starttls
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please remember to use only your tilde username as the login name, excluding the `@tilde.club`; for example `invalid` instead of `invalid@tilde.club`
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if you'd like your @tilde.club mail forwarded elsewhere, you can put an email
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address in a file called `~/.forward`
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## sieve filtering
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our dovecot configuration supports [sieve](http://sieve.info/) and
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[managesieve](https://wiki1.dovecot.org/ManageSieve).
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this means that you should put your scripts in a `~/sieve/` directory,
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symlink the active script to `~/.dovecot.sieve`, and make sure to compile it
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with `sievec ~/.dovecot.sieve`.
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you can find some example sieve scripts [here](
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https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/sieve/examples/).
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alternately, you can use webmail's [filter settings](
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https://webmail.tilde.club/#/settings/filters) to configure your filters.
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## mailing list
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we now have an official mailing list!
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if your account is old (pre sept 2019), you should be subscribed with the email
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you originally signed up with. if your account is newer (post sept 2019), then
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you should be subscribed with your @tilde.club address. if you don't fit either
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of those categories, you can subscribe by visiting the [web portal](
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https://lists.tildeverse.org/postorius/lists/tildeclub.lists.tildeverse.org/)
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or by sending a mail to tildeclub-subscribe@lists.tildeverse.org with "subscribe"
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in the subject line. in either case, you can change the email you're subscribed
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with on the web portal or by unsubscribing and re-subscribing from the other
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address.
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list archives are available [on the web here](
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https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org/).
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as of september 17, 2019, we're still seeing quite a few pending mails to
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gmail, yahoo, and fastmail. help get our list delivered by making sure to
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mark list messages as not spam and adding the list address to your contacts.
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if you're feeling especially motivated, please reach out to the support on
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your mail provider and ask them to look into why you're not receiving the
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messages.
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## Mailbox Format
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Tilde.club uses [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) as a local mail delivery agent
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as well as an IMAP server.
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It is configured to deliver your emails
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into a `.mail/` subdirectory
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within your home directory on the server,
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structured in [Courier MTA's Maildir++ format](https://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html).
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Maildir++ format is essentially the same as Maildir mailbox format,
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but with a concept of subfolders added in:
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apart from the usual `cur/`,
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`new/`,
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and `tmp/` subdirectories for normal Maildir operations;
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there would now also be dot-subdirectories
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which are email subfolders.
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Each dot-subdirectory
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would contain usual Maildir subdirectories,
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but not any more dot-subdirectory inside it.
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In Tilde.club,
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the default layout of your Maildir++ folder hierarchy
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would be as the following:
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| Email Folder | Filesystem Directory |
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|:-------------|:----------------------|
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| _(Inbox)_ | `~/.mail/` |
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| _(Sent)_ | `~/.mail/.sent-mail/` |
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| Junk | `~/.mail/.Junk/` |
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| Drafts | `~/.mail/.Drafts/` |
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| Trash | `~/.mail/.Trash/` |
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So,
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if you would like to use command line tools
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to tinker with your mailbox,
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then more power to you.
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Also,
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note that email access via IMAP and webmail
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actually read/write emails directly onto these directories;
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so now you know where to grab a copy of all your emails data
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if you ever need a backup as well.
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