Subject: Re: Frequently Asked Questions about Pine

From: [email-masked] (Scott Buntin)
Date: 6 Sep 1996 04:51:04 GMT

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 11:47:02 -0400, Fred Heitkamp <[email-masked]> wrote:
>On 20 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Stefan Kramer wrote:
>> 
>> * * * snip * * *
>> 
>> >                                       
>> >   Can Pine be used with a POP server?
>> >   
>> >    No. Neither Pine nor PC-Pine currently (as of version 3.95) support
>> >    POP's offline mail model (wherein pending mail is pulled from the mail
>> >    server to the local machine and deleted from the server). However, it
>> >    is likely that this model will be supported, with a choice of either
>> >    IMAP or POP as the access protocol, in a future release.
>> >    
>
>I received a suggestion to try:
>incoming-folders={pop3host.domain/pop3}MailBox_Name
>and it didn't work.
>First there is no incoming-folders option in the configuration that I saw.
>Second, What do you do for a password, required for the pop mailbox?
>Should pine prompt for a password?  I am assuming that pine 3.91 on
>Linux really can do POP.
>
>Fred Heitkamp
>

I'm running 3.90 - I do have an incoming-folders options, but it's blank.
I *think* it's only useful if your mail comes in multiple folders on the
POP server, or if you run procmail, or some such.

I do, however, have the following in my .pinerc -

inbox-path={pop.calweb.com}/var/spool/mail/sbuntin

Pine prompts me for username and password upon connection to the server -
It defaults to sbuntin, so I hit return, then have to manually enter the
password.  

Pine does delete msgs from the inbox, as well.

Scott

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:54:13 -0700

> inbox-path={pop.calweb.com}/var/spool/mail/sbuntin

The above tells Pine to use IMAP, not POP to access the folder.

--DLM

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