Subject: Re: Using Pine as a POP Client.

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:40:47 -0700

On 12 Sep 1996, William Burrow wrote:

> I'm attempting to use Pine as a POP client from this freenet with Pine 
> 3.91, but the result seems to be that the other machines must be running 
> IMAP.  Since I am not administering one of the other machines, it would 
> be really nice if Pine could access the POP port directly, without this 
> IMAP thing.  Is this possible?
> 
> The syntax I am using is:
> 
> {machine.dom/pop3}[]

Are you trying to specify that as a folder-collection?  That won't
work because POP3 only supports one folder, INBOX.  The only places it
makes sense to list a POP3 reference is in inbox-path or
incoming-folders, where you would use

	{machine.dom/pop3}INBOX

Hope that helps!

--DLM

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From: [email-masked] (William Burrow)
Date: 12 Sep 1996 21:29:09 GMT

{machine.dom/pop3}[]

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