Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:10:11 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM> Subject: Re: pop client Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951202190621.830A-100000@ncc-1701-d> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.951202191736.jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
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On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> On Sat Dec 2 08:06:49 1995 Doug White wrote:
> >>On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> >
> >> which is the pop client mail program of choice ??
> >> does pine, elm do pop ??
> >
> >Pine can't handle POP. I use 'popclient', a program that will pull off
> >POP mail and put it into a folder. I believe it's in the ports
> >distribution as popclient-2.21. Not sure though. (if you DO use this,
> >save the mail as a folder; if you try to make it mail it back to you (the
> >default), that support is broke and it will eat the mail. :( Otherwise
> >works great.)
> >
> >Pine's remote folder support uses "imap" which may not be supported on
> >all systems. imap also doesn't work very well on very busy systems.
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.
It seems to me, though, that the POP3 may not be working right (?) -- I
get a lot of erorr messages when ever I try to use it, but maybe it's due
to Netcom's stupid POP server(?) Can anyone else test this out and let
me (and the list! and maybe even the Pine developers!) know about it?
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