Frustrated trying to set up email

[MJ4H]

OK, please help if you can.

The following is what I'm trying to accomplish:

1) background retrieval of email to a folder on my windows 7 machine
2) setting up Alpine to access this email

Off limits:

1) virtual machine solutions
2) install another operating system

Things I've tried and why they failed:

1) cygwin + fetchmail : failed because I neither pine nor alpine are available in cygwin without a lot of work (which I tried and failed), and pc-alpine apparently won't access a folder created inside of cygwin. It's a permissions problem on the surface, but nothing seemed to fix it.

2) mpop.sourceforge.net + pc-alpine: fails because I can't make mpop deliver the mail properly. Permission denied errors everywhere that I can't seem to clear. It can deliver to mbox or maildir format, both of which alpine can access, but I just can't make it work.

Does anyone have any ideas? I've been trying all morning, and I'm about to throw my computer into the toilet.

Oh, just to be clear, I don't want to use alpine to directly access the pop inbox folder, which I know it can do and is easy to set up. It is slower than Christmas. Background retrieval with something like fetchmail or mpop is required.

[jeff061]

Cheap and shitty suggestion on all the access denied BS.... you turn off UAC?

[MJ4H]

First thing when I installed the OS.

[MikeVic]

Delete the Selena Gomez pics.

[MJ4H]

NEVER

[MikeVic]

What about the Alizee pics? One of them has to go. They're clogging up your e-mail tubes.

[jeff061]

getmail version 4 + pc-alpine?

I don't know. My messaging background is MS Bloatware . I'd only come up with hacks via Google.

Edit: Didn't realize that was a *nix package.
For Windows.
http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html

[MJ4H]

Nope that doesn't get the mail in a format Alpine can use.

[MJ4H]

OK then maybe an easier problem?

Trying to set up alpine to work with smtp server.

Thunderbird is able to auto-detect the settings and I can send, but I can't get the right config string in alpine for some reason.

Thunderbird found:
Server name: blah.blah - this part is easy
Port: 465
Username: again, easy
Authentication Method: Encrypted password
Connection Security: SSL/TLS

Now I have tried the following strings:

servername.com:465/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=username
servername.com:465/tls/novalidate-cert/user=username
servername.com:465/ssl/user=username
servername.com:465/secure/novalidate-cert/user=username

As well as all variations without user=
Have no idea what to do here. Suggestions?

[jeff061]

I've never used Alpine, that's a hard requirement? I've always used Blat.