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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: You *can* use Pine with POP3.
Date: 6 Jan 1997 23:22:51 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <5aqasg$l0g@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) writes:
> 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...
Yes, it does work. There was a thread about this recently in
comp.mail.pine, in fact. This really needs to be documented!
One small hitch, though: it's best *not* to use simply
{mailhost/pop3}INBOX for your Pine INBOX. Better to create a folder and
have mail placed into it, otherwise every time you open your INBOX you
actually have to read from the remote, which is less than efficient (and
can create confusion also if Pine thinks certain mail items are still
around when they've been removed from the server).
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