Subject: popclient + pine help

From: [email-masked] (Eric Maquiling)
Date: 8 Nov 1995 17:54:40 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get my mail on my server and reading it on my local Linux box at home.  I used poplient and got this error message
# message in folder
popclient: openmailpipe: exec: No such file or directory
reading message #.
5 <----what's this # mean BTW
I'm assuming that if popclient works, I could just open pine on my linux box and read and write messages.

Any help on this is appreciated

eric

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From: [email-masked] (Keith Rowland)
Date: 10 Nov 1995 19:33:32 GMT

As you may recall on 8 Nov 1995 17:54:40 GMT, Eric Maquiling posted this:
> 
> I'm trying to get my mail on my server and reading it on my local
> Linux box at home.

> linux box and read and write messages.

Here is an excerpt from my FAQ on ysing Linux with my provider.

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5. Setting up pine
=====================================================================

You MUST use the popclient program first to read your mail from primenet 
and place it on your local hard drive. Then you can use pine to read and 
send replies.

First set up pine. Login as your personal name login and run pine for the
first time so it sets up some default files. Exit pine. 

Edit .pinerc and edit these lines:

        # Over-rides your full name from Unix password file.
        personal-name=FirstName LastName

        # Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail.
        user-domain=YOUR.ISP.com

        # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. 
        smtp-server=mailhost.YOUR-ISP.com

Next we will create a script called 'm' for running popclient to get our
mail and then running pine. You can copy this file and edit "USERNAME" and
"PASSWORD" to your ISP username and password, which can be different
than your password on your Linux system. But for simplistic reasons, your
username on your Linux system should be the same as your ISP
username. 

m:
------------------------ Cut here ----------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
if popclient -3 -p PASSWORD -o /var/spool/mail/USERNAME mailhost.YOUR.ISP.com
then
        pine
fi
------------------------ End here ----------------------

Now to get mail, simply type m. Of course you have to have already run 
dip and be connected to your ISP.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards, Keith...

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