Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:56:34 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Dan Kilbourne <bsd-lists@netophilia.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setup POP3 clinet pine Message-ID: <41B9E352.5010007@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041210142649.GA94517@netophilia.net> References: <200412101359.iBADx3VF027772@web7.zoznam.sk> <20041210142649.GA94517@netophilia.net>
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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
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