Subject: This is so cool, I just have to share it

From: Walt Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 20:28:13 -0400 (EDT)

Many of you more experienced Pine users may already know about this, but
I didn't and it's _sooooo_ handy!  I have two separate ISPs, one with a
Unix shell and the other being a standard Windows-type provider.  During
this virus scare, I wanted a way to monitor my Windows-system email from
Unix so that I could purge anything that looked suspicious.  I knew that I
could Telnet into port 110 on my pop3 server over there and do some crude
stuff, but till somebody told me how to use Pine to do it, I never dreamed
it could be this simple.

All you do is hit "g" just as you would to get to any folder.  In the
window where you normally enter the folder name, you type something like:

{mail_server.domain.com/pop3/user=your_userid}

Note the left and right curly brackets/braces.  Substitute the full domain
address for your pop3 server; the "pop3" inside the slashes is
required; and substitute your account userid.  You'll be prompted for the
password.  At this point, you're connected to the remote server and it
looks just like another Pine folder.  Until you quit Pine, you will
remain connected, so to return to the remote folder, just re-enter the
information you did the first time ... no password, since you're still
connected.  I just love this!

-- 
Walt Smith - Raleigh, NC
[email-masked]

"I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser"
          - Mother Jones

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 17:52:01 -0700 (PDT)

Yep.  Isn't Pine great?

And if you want to do this kind of thing frequently, you can set up
Incoming Folders and Collection Lists as well.  Pine does a pretty good
job of dealing with multiple accounts once you set it up right.  (That
/user= flag is VERY important, or you'll get login prompts left and
right.)

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From: jim worthington <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 17:47:27 -0400 (EDT)

Maybe out of the purview of pine users info, but any one know if it is
possible to telnet to an imap server in like manner?

Jim

|Many of you more experienced Pine users may already know about this, but
|I didn't and it's _sooooo_ handy!  I have two separate ISPs, one with a
|Unix shell and the other being a standard Windows-type provider.  During
|this virus scare, I wanted a way to monitor my Windows-system email from
|Unix so that I could purge anything that looked suspicious.  I knew that I
|could Telnet into port 110 on my pop3 server over there and do some crude
|stuff, but till somebody told me how to use Pine to do it, I never dreamed
|it could be this simple.
|
|All you do is hit "g" just as you would to get to any folder.  In the
|window where you normally enter the folder name, you type something like:
|
|{mail_server.domain.com/pop3/user=your_userid}
|
|Note the left and right curly brackets/braces.  Substitute the full domain
|address for your pop3 server; the "pop3" inside the slashes is
|required; and substitute your account userid.  You'll be prompted for the
|password.  At this point, you're connected to the remote server and it
|looks just like another Pine folder.  Until you quit Pine, you will
|remain connected, so to return to the remote folder, just re-enter the
|information you did the first time ... no password, since you're still
|connected.  I just love this!
|
|-- 
|Walt Smith - Raleigh, NC
[email-masked]
|
|"I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser"
|          - Mother Jones
|
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Jim
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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 14:55:55 -0700 (PDT)

Yeah, you can telnet to an IMAP server on port 143, but you have to speak
IMAP to do anything once you get there.  I couldn't even figure out how to
disconnect.  I had to remotely kill my process to get my command prompt
back.  :)

Some IMAP servers allow you to telnet in on the normal telnet port, but in
my experience most don't.