Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 09:14:57 -0500 From: Chris Peltier <CPELTIER@iectech.com> To: "'John D. Szumowski'" <harpo@javanet.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: pine setup... Message-ID: <96Dec28.052531est.6187@netgate.iectech.com>
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>>
>> Andrew Y Ng writes:
>> > u have to have an imap server for PINE to work, imho.
>>
>> No, only if you wish to access your mail from another system
>> via the network. For local use, Pine does not use the imap
>> server.
>>
>> > > of my 2.1.5 cd, but haven't been able to get it to work properly.
>>i just
>> > > have a dial up account. pine doesn't recognize, or seem to contact my
>> > > mail server. what options do i need to change (when i setup my bsd
>> > > networking stuff, i didn't bother changing the generic
>> > > "myname.mydomain.com"...)
>>
>> To access a remote mailbox (assuming that you want to access
>> your mail box on your /providers/ system, and that your provider
>> does in fact run an imap server), then use the mailbox spec
>> {your.providers.fqdn}INBOX. For local mailbox, just a path
>> to the mailbox is fine (or just INBOX, which is the default
>> for /var/mail/yourid). Unfortunately, John, your question was
>> sufficiently vague that any advice offered has a good chance
>> of being wrong.
>>
>> > > any help would be appreciated. (yes, i do have mail.javanet.com listed
>> > > as the smtp server, and javanet.com as the user domain. what else?)
>>
>> This suggests you need a local mail reading config, in which
>> case, Pine should work. What errors is Pine reporting?
>>
>Ok...let me get this straight. Pine works *fine* for local email. That
>however, doesn't help since I'm the only user of this machine. Anyways,
>I'm waiting to hear from my isp's tech-support as to whether they run
>imap or not. I don't know. I just want to be able to pull messages off
>my shell account (@ javanet).
>Pine, I have heard, doesn't support pop, so I guess I'm going to have
>to
>look into another mail program (which is too bad since pine is pretty
>nice).
Use popclient in the Ports collection to pull from a POP server and
move the mail to your local INBOX. You can then use Pine to read
and respond. This works great if you use both Unix and Windoz and
need a common mailbox.
-Chris Peltier
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