Subject: PC-Pine, POP3, local mailbox

From: Cynic <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:37:01 +0200

Hi there,

I'm trying to get PC-Pine play nice with my POP3 mailboxes.
As far as I can tell, one can use PC-Pine to access local mail
provided there is a tool that will fetch it from the POP3 server,
like fetchmail or getmail. Problem is, neither of these tools has
a win32 port AFAIK. (getmail is a Python script, so that wouldn't
be a problem, but it uses fcntl, and that _is_ a problem.)

Do you know of a getmail equivalent that would work on NT? I don't
mind if it's a python, perl, ruby or whatever program, as long as
it runs on NT.

TIA.

PS I've searched the pine-info@ archive, read the FAQ and several
other resources, but the only 'solution' I found was 'use getmail'.

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From: "William R. Van Kuyk" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:06:01 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

PC-Pine can access your pop3 mailbox directly....

in your Pinerc file

If you only have one:
   inbox-path={your.server.name/pop3/user=userid.here}INBOX
You can also have more by using Incoming folders:
   incoming-folders="TEST1" {Server.name1/pop3/user=USERID}INBOX,
	"TEST2" {Server.name2/pop3/user=USERID}INBOX,
	"TEST3" {Server.name3/pop3/user=USERID}INBOX

I hope this helps....

On May 15, 2001 at 18:37 +0200 Cynic wrote:

--> Hi there,
-->
--> I'm trying to get PC-Pine play nice with my POP3 mailboxes.
--> As far as I can tell, one can use PC-Pine to access local mail
--> provided there is a tool that will fetch it from the POP3 server,
--> like fetchmail or getmail. Problem is, neither of these tools has
--> a win32 port AFAIK. (getmail is a Python script, so that wouldn't
--> be a problem, but it uses fcntl, and that _is_ a problem.)
-->
--> Do you know of a getmail equivalent that would work on NT? I don't
--> mind if it's a python, perl, ruby or whatever program, as long as
--> it runs on NT.
-->
--> TIA.
-->
--> PS I've searched the pine-info@ archive, read the FAQ and several
--> other resources, but the only 'solution' I found was 'use getmail'.
-->
-->
--> [email-masked]
-->
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William R. Van Kuyk
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From: Cynic <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:35:37 +0200

I know this. I also know that Pine will read a POP3 inbox
only upon opening it, and have my inbox-path set to a dummy
local inbox so I can TAB between it and the real one to get
it reload the one on my server. But I need a way to fetch
my mail to my workstation - I have several accounts and the
amount of mail I recieve is ~400 messages / 24 hours. It
would fill up my quotas on the servers pretty fast. Also,
all message flags set up during a session are lost, and I
really need to preserve them. So, what I need is:

a program that will periodically fetch my mail (several
accounts) to my workstation, and possibly filter the messages
into folders (this could be left to Pine).

I apologize if there's a flaw in my logic or if I'm overlooking
something obvious, but I'm a hopefully-soon-to-be-former
Eudora user, so many of the principles are a bit alien to me.

>--> other resources, but the only 'solution' I found was 'use getmail'.

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