Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:33:44 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't receive mail with pine Message-ID: <38A4D498.DD409DC2@confusion.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002112227260.60632-100000@genisis.istar.ca>
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Dru wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Laurence Berland wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, pine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing email. If you
> > > want a POP3 client, you'll need something like fetchmail or wmpop.
> >
> > Last I checked you could read IMAP and POP3 mail from pine. Am I
> > misreading you or am I just plain wrong?
>
> I'm not sure :) You can read email fetched via either POP3 or IMAP4
> protocols, but you still need a POP3/IMAP4 client to fetch that mail
> before you can read and manage it. Did that make sense?!?
>
> Dru
I'm pretty sure that pine will fetch POP3 mail if you tell it to
(overriding the default local /var deal). I'm not quite sure fetch is
the right way to describe IMAP. I've also been told there are no truly
good IMAP clients yet. Any suggestions? (Ducks in anticipation of holy
war :)
--
Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
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