From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 17:56:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F64316A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:56:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD92C43D69 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:56:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:54:10 -0600 Message-ID: <41B9E352.5010007@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:56:34 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Kilbourne References: <200412101359.iBADx3VF027772@web7.zoznam.sk> <20041210142649.GA94517@netophilia.net> In-Reply-To: <20041210142649.GA94517@netophilia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Dec 2004 17:54:11.0009 (UTC) FILETIME=[40D78310:01C4DEE1] cc: goose bla cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setup POP3 clinet pine X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:56:17 -0000 goose bla: >hello, >please >how can i setup pine like POP3 client ?.. >i cannot find how-to about it, and man is unapplicable. > >goose > > Dan Kilbourne: >goose bla extolled: > >I recommend you run fetchmail (available in ports) to fetch your POP3 >mail, then use pine to read your local mail spool. > >You can create a .fetchmailrc with a line like this: >(other stuff will need to be in there for it to work well) > >poll $SERVER proto pop3 user "$USER" pass "$PASS" is \ >$LOCALUSER here options fetchall warnings 3600; > >where : > $SERVER == mail servername > $USER == mail username > $PASS == mail password > $LOCALUSER == local user account that will run pine > >I use this with mutt and it works flawlessly, and someone else uses it >with pine on my machine with no issues. Would this solve it for you? > >That being said, you can also apparently use pine to directly pop your >mail. >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pine+pop3&btnG=Google+Search >seems to give some links with info on it. > >Personally, I think since pine was originally designed to read directly >from a mail spool, I would go the fetchmail route. > > A second to what Dan has said, and a pointer to the FreeBSD handbook, which has a brief section on both fetchmail and procmail, which can be useful when run in concert with each other. I also prefer mutt for reading mail from /var/mail in console; for eye candy in X I do use mozilla mail... and I recommend either. HTH, Kevin Kinsey