Married with Alpine

[tinypad]

Hi,

Thanks to bmarkus, Alpine was included in the repo yesterday, which made me really happy.  I also could manage to compile it myself.  However, ssl and tls which you will need for gmail or most other accounts are not working yet.  I'm sure it's just a matter of time.

But if anyone could show me how to configure ssl myself, that would be awesome.  Tried to compile openssl, which needed openldap, and included in the repo but didn't come quite far.  Alpine refused server/path: imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/user=<username> as Invalid Server Name.

Since alpine has accompanied me through my entire life, this is a sentimental issue to me.

Thus thanks a lot for the help!

[bmarkus]

tinypad,

your are right with SSL. Unfortunately I had no too much time to look for a solution to get alpine compiled with SSl so decided to publish w/o SSL as the first version to get feedback.

Hope to get some time next week.

Regards

Béla

[Jason W]

I did try alpine once before the extension was submitted, and it does not recognize openssl with pkgconfig when both openssl and it's devs are installed.  These configure flags may help if you have not tried them yet:

--with-ssl-lib-dir=/usr/local/lib
--with-ssl-include-dir=/usr/local/include
--with-ssl-certs-dir=/usr/local/etc/ssl/misc

I don't have time now to test it now, but may be worth a try.

[Jason W]

These configure flags allow alpine to be built against openssl:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
--with-ssl-dir=/usr/local \
--with-ssl-include-dir=/usr/local/include/openssl \
--with-ssl-lib-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-ssl-certs-dir=/usr/local/etc/ssl/misc

However, alpine expects your own openssl certificates to have been generated.  As well as it complains of the lack of a default posting command.  I don't use alpine so I didn't look much further but at least it can be built with ssl.

[bmarkus]

Jason

thanks, will create a new version.

I have Alpine on my CentOS which will help to find out what is missing and what is the proper configuration for TC.

Béla

[tinypad]

Jason W, Bela:

Really appreciate your support!  The flags work smoothly.  Running alpine with openSSL.  

TCL is by far the best distro I have ever used!

tinypad

[bmarkus]

Thanks to help of Jason alpine is upgraded to support SSL. Now it is in the 2.x repository.

[tinypad]

Wishless happy!

Thank you very much to bmarkus, Jason W, and anyone who is involved in this project!  TCL w/ alpine and links run like a charm on my old netbook.  Couldn't imagine to have such fun with a distro of around 100mb.

Thanks for this experience!