Subject: Re: Pine and POP?

From: [email-masked] (Ken Snyder)
Date: 8 Jul 1996 15:52:30 GMT

HemiCuda ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I've heard that it is possible for me to retrieve my POP3 email using Pine.
: Currently, I'm using Pine 3.91 but plan on upgrading to a newer version
: here when I install my new harddrive.  How do I go about setting 3.91 up to
: retrieve mail via POP3, and can I set it up to remove mail from server, etc?
: I've looked through all the setup I can see, and nothing looks very 
: familiar to me.  Thanks, any comments sent via email appreciated too.  

I use a separate program to "POP3" my mail from our mail mailserver.
I had to download the POP3 program, called pop-perl5, which is a perl 
script.  You can find a copy at 

      ftp.warwick.ac.uk    pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/system/Mail/
                             pop-perl5-1.1.tar.gz

As you can see, I am using Linux, but I believe the script should work 
for any operating system with a perl implementation.  

Good luck,
Ken Snyder.

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From: pHOo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:46:05 +0000

> for any operating system with a perl implementation.  

i'm using popclient to retreive my mail from my mailserver.. and it works 
just fine.. but, i want to be able to write/reply to msgs /offline/ and 
then send all msgs in one folder.. maybe you know how to do it?  let's 
say you're using ^O [postpone] instead of ^X [send] so that all outgoing 
mail ends up in the postponed-msgs folder..  if you only had some program 
that would take all msgs from one folder-file and send them! well well..

    .mmMMMmm.  -  - ----------------------------------- -  -
   MM" . . "MM.   pHOo of Access Inside Productionz (AiP)
 .M"   M M   "M.     http://www.angelfire.com/pg1/phoo
 M".   M M   ."M          PGP public key available
 M M.  " "  .M M              <[email-masked]>
 M. M.     .M .M
 "M. "MmmmM" .M" "To fly, you just have to miss the ground"
  "Mm.     .mM"
    "MMmmmMM"  -  - ----------------------------------- -  -

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From: Matt Chatterley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 01:14:37 +0000

On 30 Jun 1996, HemiCuda wrote:

> I've heard that it is possible for me to retrieve my POP3 email using Pine.
> Currently, I'm using Pine 3.91 but plan on upgrading to a newer version
> here when I install my new harddrive.  How do I go about setting 3.91 up to
> retrieve mail via POP3, and can I set it up to remove mail from server, etc?
> I've looked through all the setup I can see, and nothing looks very 
> familiar to me.  Thanks, any comments sent via email appreciated too.  

Setup a script as below, and use a cron to set it off regularly.

#!/bin/sh
popclient -3 -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD -c MAILSERVER >> /var/spool/mail/USERNAME

A friend just showed me how this works, so Kudos to him not me ;) 

> --
> Scott Moseman
> [email-masked]
> 
> 
> 

Regards,

	-Matt Chatterley
http://user.itl.net/~neddy/index.html

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to 
anger." --J.R.R Tolkien

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From: [email-masked] (Klaus Wacker)
Date: 18 Jul 1996 17:08:13 GMT

> popclient -3 -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD -c MAILSERVER >> /var/spool/mail/USERNAME

Is there something like an imapclient similar to popclient? The reason
I am asking is the following: I would like to retrieve mail for
offline reading at home not from the INBOX, but from some other mail
folders, where presorted private mail ends up. My "ISP" is my
workstation at the office and I want most of my mail to stay there.

Such a thing should be relatively easy to write with the c-client
library, and maybe somebody has done it already.

I have also thought about using pine to do this by invoking it with
{my.office.machine}my/private/mailfolder as initial folder and with
the appropriate initial keystrokes to save everything locally, expunge
and exit. But I don't know whether pine will work without a terminal
and I don't know how to supply the password when I do this unattended
from cron.

-- 
Klaus Wacker              [email-masked]
Experimentelle Physik V   http://www.physik.uni-dortmund.de/~wacker
Universitaet Dortmund     Tel.: +49 (231) 755 3587
D-44221 Dortmund          Fax:  +49 (231) 755 3569

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From: Juha Suhonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:13:40 +0300 (EET DST)

On 18 Jul 1996, Klaus Wacker wrote:

> Date: 18 Jul 1996 17:08:13 GMT
> From: Klaus Wacker <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Pine and POP?
> 

> workstation at the office and I want most of my mail to stay there.

Pop2 supports folders. Pop3 doesn't.

   JuhaS

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