On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Thomas R. Shannon wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Manuel A. Camacho Q. wrote:
>
> > Hi, Tom!
> >
> > I would like to try pine. But, being honest, the unique reason I use
> > Netscape Messenger is because connecting to the net with rp3, I just had
> > to turn it on and it worked. What (and how) should I set my system to
> > get pine to work???
>
> Hi, Manuel,
>
> OK, here's the deal. Pine is a great program but it conforms to what
> seems to be an overall Unix philosophy. That is, use a bunch of small
> programs that do one thing and do it well. Pine is a very good mail
> reader/sender. But it won't go to a pop server and get your mail for
> you and it wasn't initially designed to filter mail. That's beyond
> its scope. In order to download your mail from your server, use a
> program called fetchmail. Type:
>
[SNIP]
>
Pine will access mail using POP-3. You just set the inbox to the other
machine. I do this all the time. This is covered in the Pine
documention. Pine can also use a remote machine for sendign mail.
Mikkel
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