Subject: Pine and Pop3

From: "Joe Bernard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:16:34 -0700

I am wondering if I have say an email on a isp, and want to setup pine
to do that, how would I do this?  Also I would be doing this throw
telnet to a red hat linux server.  Is this even possible?
 
Let me know at [email-masked]

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:56:11 -0700 (PDT)

*** Joe Bernard ([email-masked]) wrote today:

:) I am wondering if I have say an email on a isp, and want to setup
:) pine to do that, how would I do this?  Also I would be doing this
:) throw telnet to a red hat linux server.  Is this even possible?

Yes, there are several ways to do this:

1. The quickest way but not the best:

Set your inbox-path as:

inbox-path = {your.pop3.server/pop3/user=userid}INBOX

2. The longest way but the best:

Press M S C and [X] enable-incoming-folders, quit Pine and restart it
again. Once you restart Pine you need to go to your folder list (press L)
and put the cursor over INBOX. Press "A", Pine will ask you to enter the
server name, enter:

  your.pop3.server/pop3/user=userid

after this Pine will ask you to enter the folder that you need to open,
enter:

  INBOX

Finally, Pine will ask you for a nickname. This is the name of the folder
as you will see it later, so enter anything. You can always rename it
later.

  The advantage of the second method over the first is that every time
that you open the folder created this way you will have an account of the
present state of the folder, this includes if you have new mail or not.
With the first method, every time that you open the INBOX folder you will
only see the state as it was the first time that you opened the folder.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/