Subject: Q: does pine support pop3?

From: "Mike Eggleston" <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Feb 1997 14:56:28 GMT

I'd like to have my pine users getting their mail from a central mail hub. 
Does pine support pop3 and is this feasible?

TIA

Mike
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:42:28 +0100 (CET)

On 6 Feb 1997, Mike Eggleston wrote:

  >Does pine support pop3

Yes. From .pinerc:

# List of directories where saved-message folders may be. First one is
# the default for Saves. Example: Main {host1}mail/[], Desktop mail\[]
# Syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-hostname}optnl-directory-path[]
#incoming-folders={ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/pop3}inbox
  
And from pine's q&a:
  Can Pine be used with a POP server?
  
  As of version 3.95, PC-Pine cannot be used with a POP (Post Office
  Protocol) server. Pine for Unix can be configured to access the message
  INBOX on a POP3 server using the folder definition syntax
  {pop3server/pop3}INBOX
                   
  where pop3server is the hostname of the POP3 server.
  
  However, this method accesses the POP server in quasi-online mode, not in
  offline mode, which POP was designed for. Accessing the inbox on a POP3
  server with Pine does not preserve changes to message flags (New,
  Answered, Deleted, etc.) between sessions.
   
  As an alternative, a program such as popclient can be used to download
  email from a POP server to a local Unix account, where it can then
  be accessed with Pine. One location from which popclient can be obtained
  is:
         ftp://ftp.mal.com/pub/pop/
         
  Note: support for the offline mode of email access (using either POP or
  IMAP) is planned for a future release of Pine and PC-Pine. For a
  more detailed comparison of the POP and IMAP protocols, see Message
  Access Paradigms and Protocols at the URL:
     http://www.imap.org/imap.vs.pop.html

  > and is this feasible?

Dunno. ;-)

Cheers,
Robin

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