Subject: Re: POP3 client

From: Animal <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:30:58 -0700

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Olivier Siegwart wrote:

|Does someone knows a pop3 client for unix (vt100 or vt200 emulation)
|

I use fetchmail and pine to accomplish this task.

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From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:51:09 -0500 (EST)

>I use fetchmail and pine to accomplish this task.

Together?  If you're using Pine, there's no need to use fetchmail.

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From: [email-masked] (James Gerber)
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 23:43:53 GMT

>Together?  If you're using Pine, there's no need to use fetchmail.

How does one use PINE as a POP client?

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:56:21 +0100 (CET)

>How does one use PINE as a POP client?

By reading the manual:

  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.

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Robin

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From: [email-masked] (Charles K. Kincaid)
Date: 4 Mar 1997 20:08:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, 
[email-masked] says...
>  >How does one use PINE as a POP client?

I have been trying to get PC-Pine to work as a mail client for a Win95 
user.  The user has a PPP / SLIP / Shell account with a local ISP.  I 
have been using PINE on his account through TELNET just fine. (The ISP 
uses a UNIX host)  I have downloaded PC-Pine 16 and 32 bit versions.  I 
have it running just fine as a news reader.  I can't use the e-mail 
portion as it won't attach to the e-mail server at the ISP. Other E-mail 
packages (MS Internet Mail, Eudora, Pegasus, Free Agent, etc.) get in 
just fine.  I am hoping to get PINE working as my user is blind and his 
speech output works best with text oriented programs.

If not PINE, any suggestions?

Charles K. Kincaid
"There is no acceptable scale on which to measure the worth of a person."
- Charles Kincaid (if I don't quote myself, who will)

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From: Robert de Bath <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:31:00 +0000

The best pop-3, pop-2, IMAP, apop mail collection program I've found is
called 'fetchmail'. It collects the mail from a remote mailbox and puts 
it into a local mailbox or file so it's language is irrelevent.

You can easily fetch the latest version of fetchmail via FTP from:

        ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail-2.2.tar.gz

Or you can get it from Eric's home page:

        http://www.ccil.org/~esr

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On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Olivier Siegwart wrote:

> Does someone knows a pop3 client for unix (vt100 or vt200 emulation)
> with source code, that could be rebuild in rench ?
> 
> Thank you very much for any information
> 
> Olivier
> 
> olivier Siegwart
> [email-masked]
>