From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 23:34:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C3B3D24 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:34:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip60.kingston.dialup.canada.psi.net ([154.5.64.60]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 12JSyJ-0006zQ-00; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:11:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:29:34 -0500 (EST) From: Dru To: Laurence Berland Cc: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't receive mail with pine In-Reply-To: <38A4D2F6.9B332506@confusion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message