From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 12:11:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA16659 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 12:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA16651 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 12:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id NAA14329 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:11:55 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199512062011.NAA14329@intele.net> Subject: Re: pop client To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:11:28 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text 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 % % [snip] % % 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(?) ] I'd tend to believe this one. :) > definately buggy. i just tried to get 60 messages using pine > and pop3. internal error. pine exits. > > it fetches 2 messages successfully. with 10 messages on the > pop3 server, it gets the headers only. Have you tried connecting to the POP server with telnet and debugging the conversation? POP3 is a very chatty protocol, and rather easy to debug. See the POP3 RFC (I don't remember the number off the top of my head) for more information. Also, if you pop mail client supports it, turn on debugging and watch the converstation between client and server. Perhaps this will help explain where it goes wrong. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffet