Subject: Re: [Q] Can I use pine with a Pop account?

From: Nate Stahl <[email-masked]>
Date: 1 Dec 1995 05:05:44 GMT

You can use pine with a pop mail server by using a program like popclient
(ftp.mal.com) to retrieve your mail from the pop server into your spool file,
then runing pine.

--Mike

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 2 Dec 1995 15:03:37 -0800

[email-masked] (Lockley Gentes) writes:
>How can I access a pop mail account with unix pine??
>Also, how can I specify a different login and/or password??

Is the host running imapd?  If so, you can use IMAP to access
your messages.
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From: Greg Lutz <[email-masked]>
Date: 5 Dec 1995 19:42:57 GMT

>Also, how can I specify a different login and/or password??

I'm very interested in this issue myself. I use Linux, not true
Unix, and have a few answers.

pine can *upload* mail to a POP account with no problem: you just
need to enter your SMTP server name in the pine configuration.

As far as I know, pine can't fetch mail directly from a POP
account, but there is a simple program called "popclient" which
you can execute with the name of a POPD server as argument, and
it will download all messages from the server into your Unix
in-box.  This program may be invocable directly from pine, but
I don't know how.  Source for the program is available at an
ftp address I don't have right handy...

As to using a POP login different from your Unix user ID -- I'd
love to be able to do that myself.  For the moment, I've created
an extra Unix account under the name used with my POP account, but
it's a real nuissance.  Realize, however, that pine would have to
use the POP-account login as the return address in messages it
composed for you; in general, the whole outside world will know
you by that name, only your Unix system will know you by your
user ID.