Subject: POP2/POP3 Compliance?

From: [email-masked] (Steve Wells)
Date: 29 Jun 97 05:45:01 GMT

Apparently the mail-server I'm using is POP2/POP3 as opposed to standard
POP, and I was wondering if this is why Pine is unable to talk to it, is
Pine in fact compatible with these standards(!?)?

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:00:27 +0100 (BST)

Hi -

Pine is really designed to work with "IMAP" (Internet Message Access
Protocol) rather than "POP" (Post Office Protocol) as its underlying mail
access protocol.  IMAP is, in the view of many, a much more flexible and
useful protocol:

	http://www.imap.org/imap.vs.pop.brief.html

Obviously this means that your mail system must offer an IMAP service for
you to use Pine to access your mail.  If it only offers a POP service then
you may still be access your mail providing you are using the UNIX version
of Pine; The PC version of Pine, PC-Pine, does not include the ability to
access a POP service.

You can read about setting up the UNIX version of Pine to access a POP
server in the Pine Frequesntly Asked Questions guide:

	http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/index.html

Cheers,

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