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From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: You *can* use Pine with POP3.
Date: 6 Jan 1997 07:50:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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David May (mayd@chrysanthemum.localdomain) wrote:
: The Pine version included in the FreeBSD packages has built-in POP3 support. 
: I know because I had a similar problem. My ISP only supported the POP3 
: protocol at the time and the Pine online help suggested that it required IMAP.

AFAIK, IMAP is not POP3...
were you able to actually use it with pop3?
I know that my university has a pop3 version of pine... 
but it might be custom...