From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 12:39:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA22819 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 12:39:15 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22811 ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 12:39:07 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA09006; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:36:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512032036.NAA09006@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: pop client To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:36:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: jmb@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org, jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Dec 2, 95 07:10:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 996 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Actually, pine (at least, 3.91) does support reading remote mail using > pop3. Add this in your .pinerc > > incoming-folders=INBOX_netcom {popd.ix.netcom.com/pop3} > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | | > (1) (2) > > (1) = set this to be the name that you want this "mailbox" to appear as > (2) = set this to the hostname/IP address of your pop3 server > > It'll ask you for your username and password, when you read mail. Your > UNIX login name on your FreeBSD box must be the same as the account you > have on the POP server. Actually, you'd think it'd use reserved ports to implement rcmd-like vouchsafe authentication so you can avoid the annoying login from a trusted system that you're already authenticated to. Other than that, it's rather nifty. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.