{"id":3694,"date":"2025-10-03T09:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.dzinepixel.com\/iopb_wp\/?post_type=configuration&#038;p=3694"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:47:54","slug":"configure-alpine-for-iopb-mail","status":"publish","type":"configuration","link":"https:\/\/staging.dzinepixel.com\/iopb_wp\/configuration\/configure-alpine-for-iopb-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Configure Alpine for IOPB Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOPB email system can be accessed through alpine email client. You can mail itsupport[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in to ask for configuring your system or alternatively you can follow the brief guide to set up IOPB mail on alpine on linux.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Installing Alpine<\/strong><br \/>\nAlpine should already be installed on official systems if not, please contact IT Support. For personal systems, please use the following method.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ubuntu\/Debian<\/strong><br \/>\n$ sudo apt install alpine<br \/>\nFedora\/CentOS\/RHEL<br \/>\n$ sudo yum install alpine<br \/>\nConfiguring Alpine<br \/>\nTo configure alpine, open alpine for the first time so that it generates the default configuration file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>$ alpine<\/strong><br \/>\nExit the greeting by pressing \u201cE\u201d. Then exit alpine by pressing \u201cQ\u201d and confirming with \u201cY\u201d. Now edit the default configuration file and make the following changes. Replace \u201cFull Name\u201d with your full name and \u201cusername\u201d with IOPB Username.<\/p>\n<p>> personal-name=Full Name<\/p>\n<p>> user-domain=iopb.res.in<\/p>\n<p>> smtp-server=mx1.iopb.res.in:587\/tls\/user=username[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in<\/p>\n<p>> default-fcc={mx1.iopb.res.in}Sent<\/p>\n<p>> default-saved-msg-folder={mx1.iopb.res.in}Drafts<\/p>\n<p>> trash-folder={mx1.iopb.res.in}Deleted Items<\/p>\n<p>> customized-hdrs=From: &#8220;Full Name&#8221; <username[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in>,<br \/>\n> Reply-To: &#8220;Full Name&#8221; <username[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in><\/p>\n<p>> folder-collections=mail\/[],<br \/>\n> &#8220;IOPB Mail&#8221; {mx1.iopb.res.in:143\/tls\/user=username[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in}[]<br \/>\n<strong>Reporting Issues<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can write to itsupport[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in in if you ace any issues in configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":98,"template":"","class_list":["post-3694","configuration","type-configuration","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dzinepixel.com\/iopb_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/configuration\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dzinepixel.com\/iopb_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/configuration"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dzinepixel.com\/iopb_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/configuration"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dzinepixel.com\/iopb_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dzinepixel.com\/iopb_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}