From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 10 15:20:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19204 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kave.iafrica.com (kave.iafrica.com [196.7.0.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19199 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copernicus.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15] (khetan) by kave.iafrica.com with smtp (Exim 0.55 #1) id E0v0bDu-0007Mn-00; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:24:02 +0200 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:20:20 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: hmmm cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: isp mail In-Reply-To: <3235A4FA.6CB7@alaska.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > what is the best way to read mail > from my isp? i noticed pine 3.95 > can read only - not delete, etc. Why can't it delete ? I telnet to my ISP's box (running FreeBSD 2.1.5) and read it from there. If you wish to dump the mail onto your side, use popclient or alternatively ask your ISP to install a IMAP daemon on his side, so that you can access your remote mailbox from your server (using IMAP which Pine supports). --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan ] UUNet Internet Africa [ 0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com ] Get rid of Telkom.... [ http://www.ispa.org.za ] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org ] Any opinions stated in this message are personal. UIA's official policy may not be reflected in this message.