Subject: Re: Problems getting POP3 to run with UNIX Pine

From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 13:25:11 -0600 (CST)

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On 29 Oct 1996, Ashok Aiyar wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:09:17 GMT, John Hansen <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> >   I'm attempting to use Pine 3.91 under Linux to read mail on a 
> >POP3 server.  I've used the recommended syntax:
> >
> >(oak.ait.fredonia.edu/pop3)INBOX
> >
> 
> That syntax is incorrect.  The correct syntax is:
> incoming-folders= INBOX {oak.ait.fredonia.edu/pop3}
> 
> Note that the brackets are very different.

Your syntax is incorrect as well.  It should be the same as John's example
but with the parenthesis replaced by {}'s:

incoming-folders="John's Inbox" {oak.ait.fredonia.edu/pop3}INBOX

  Jason

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From: [email-masked] (TRAN Huu Da)
Date: 6 Nov 1996 12:36:13 GMT

Un jour, [email-masked] ([email-masked])
      affirmait publiquement que:

| I have a mail account on commercial-directory.com my username is travagt
| assume passwd is: 123456 [in case it is needed] I set the program, and
| it says "connection refused, 143" 

This could mean that commercial-directry.com does not have an imapd
installed.

| I have it set as:
| "travagt" {commercial-directory.com}travagt

Shouldn't it be something like:
	COM-DIR	{commercial-directory.com}inbox
or perhaps
	COM-DIR	{commercial-directory.com}/path/to/your/mailbox

Then, if imapd is installed on commercial-directory.com,  you should be
prompted for your username and passwd.  Sorry, I forgot the right syntax
to provide your username directly.

HTH...
(Cc'ed)

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