Subject: Fetching Mail

From: "Karl F. Larsen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:25:46 -0700 (MST)

I got pine for the pc and got it set up properly to send mail to
another person/place. But I can't find any information on what needs
setting up to get my mail from my ISP and put it in pine.

	If anyone has done this please send along what you did. I have
tried many setup/config and nothing works. 

Yours Truly,

  	 - Karl F. Larsen, [email-masked]  (505) 524-3303  -

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:34:17 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> But I can't find any information on what needs setting up to get
> my mail from my ISP and put it in pine.

What is your inbox-path in (M)ain (S)etup (C)onfig set to?

If you are accessing your email via IMAP, it should look something
like

inbox-path = {mail.example.com/user=xyzzy}INBOX

where mail.example.com should be replaced by your ISP's mail server,
and xyzzy should be replaced by your username with your ISP.

If your ISP only supports POP mail, add the /pop3 flag so that it
looks like

inbox-path = {mail.example.com/user=xyzzy/pop3}INBOX

Try that, and don't hesitate to ask questions if you have further
problems.

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Gopi Sundaram
[email-masked]
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From: "Karl F. Larsen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:11:45 -0700 (MST)

Hi Gopi, my ISP uses pop3 and so I did it as you show below and it worked
swell on Linux. Then rebooted to Windows and set up that version of pine
the same way and it works fine there too!

What I used was this:

	{zianet.com/user=k5di/pop3}INBOX

And it asks for your password every time you come up but that's not too
bad. Thanks for the correct info!

And Merry Christmas to you and yours...

Yours Truly,

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:16:03 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> And it asks for your password every time you come up but that's
> not too bad.

No, it isn't too bad. But if you *really* can't live with it, look
into the PASSFILE option. In Unix Pine, it is a compile-time
directive.

It gives you the ability to store your password in a file on your
harddisk. Please note that this is a significant security hazard,
because your password is then only as secure as the rest of your
files. The password is encrypted in the passfile, but the crypto
scheme is pretty lame.

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From: "Karl F. Larsen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 05:30:09 -0700 (MST)

I will look for the PASSFILE option. The password is for my ISP's
computer and he has lots of people working there to correct security
problems.

	I'm now looking at the option Display-Filters. I printed the help
file and it is sinking in slowly to my 65 year old tired brain. Is there
anywhere I can find a sample of this filter? I can just try one, but that
really takes time.

Yours Truly,