Subject: PC-Pine & IMAP

From: kirk <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Nov 1994 23:46:26 GMT

To someone with the know how

   I have set up pine to read my mail on a UNIX account
on a PC from home. Here's the problem:

Pine uses IMAP UNIX port 143 to read mail. My sUNIX server
does not surport port 143. It uses ports 25 SMTP , 109 pop2
& 110 pop3. 

Question? Is there a way to set up pine on either of these
ports 25, 109, 110 so that I can use PC-pine from home.
I know some would say just setup aIMAP on the UNIX server
but that is not an option I wanted to take.

Any help will be most aperciated, and remember that PC-PINE
I need to set the port for.

				Thankx N advance
				[email-masked]

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 19:47:28 -0500 (EST)

Kirk,
  The short answer is "no".  PCPine needs an IMAP server and can't use a 
POP or SMTP server for reading mail, though it does use SMTP for sending 
mail.  Also, the important thing is the protocol, not the port number.  
It's possible to set up a POP server on port 143 but it cause all sorts 
of havoc because programs connecting to port 143 would expect the IMAP 
protocol, not the POP protocol.

Laurence Lundblade                             
  [email-masked] (and a few other addresses) 
     http://oneworld.wa.com/laurence/home.html
        Virginia Tech CS -- Blacksburg, Virginia, US -- 703-552-2537

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 18 Nov 94 02:18:57 GMT

>but that is not an option I wanted to take.

What you have just told us is that IMAP is not supported on your UNIX
server.  Why are you trying to use it?  It has to be installed and
configured, it is not standard UNIX.

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