Subject: Re: POP3 access?

From: [email-masked] (Ashok Aiyar)
Date: 2 Aug 1996 23:36:14 GMT

On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:38:24 -0700, Doug Piercy <[email-masked]> wrote:

>Is there a version of Pine available (or forthcoming) that supports the
>widely-used POP3 protocol for retrieving remote mail instead of the
>apparently rarely-unused IMAP2 protocol?
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

rarely-unused would make it widely-used :-)

Anyhow, Pine 3.9x does support pop3.  Simply use the following
syntax for your mail-folder on the pop3 server.

incoming-folders= POP3 Mail {pop3host.domain/pop3}

later,
Ashok
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Ashok Aiyar, Ph.D.                      
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University of Wisconsin-Madison                  tel: (608) 262-6697