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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news 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. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5as1gb$37j@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <5andkb$ur9$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> <5aqasg$l0g@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.142 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33722 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). -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |