Subject: POP and Pine

From: [email-masked] (fishbowl)
Date: 26 Feb 1995 19:52:23 GMT

I get my mail forwarded to my machine via a .forward entry, but I'd rather
just get the mail off the POP server using pine.  I looked through the docs 
and got pretty good confirmation that Pine supports pop, but nothing about 
how to set it up.

Please help, if you know how to make Pine work as a POP client.

Regards,

James 

^[wq!

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 15:56:58 -0800 (PST)

James,
Could you tell us where you found "pretty good confirmation that Pine 
supports pop"?  We'd like to fix the docs if they imply that.  (Indeed, 
the docs *should* mention that Pine uses IMAP for remote folder access.)

POP normally implies "offline" operation wherein mail is downloaded from 
a mail drop/server to a local machine and deleted from the server.
Pine does not yet support "offline" operation, but it will in the future.
At that point, we expect that you will be able to use either POP or IMAP 
to download and delete messages from the server.

However, for now you can use a Unix POP client (e.g. one called
"popclient") and make it a "front-end" for Pine in a shell script.  This
should accomplish the same thing, though slightly less efficiently. 

Alternatively, you can ask the pic.net folks to run imapd alongside popd
and manually do an aggregate Save and Delete.

-teg