From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 0:13:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DD937B417 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:13:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp7-252.ath.forthnet.gr Bernie_X@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [213.16.154.252] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with Novell NIMS $Revision: 2.88 $ on Novell NetWare; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:13:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:01:21 +0200 (EET) From: Bernie X-X-Sender: root@BLAST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mail + news Message-ID: <20020115074752.E271-100000@BLAST> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, just wonder if u can help me with the following... i'm using freebsd with 56k dialup only (no lan) and i'm using pine to get my mail + news. the problem is that pine does not cache mail + news in the way that other mail clients do. so, if i wanna scroll down etc, it takes long time and i can see it connecting to the remote (imap) mail server. the situation is much worse when it comes to newsgroups. if i wanna look for a group, pine downloads all the list of groups (not just the differences between the list it downloaded last time and the list of the news-server), which makes it a real pain to browse through newsgroups. also within a newsgroup, scrolling is very difficult and slow... i posted in the pine group and got a reply saying that i should look into things like fetchmail + leafnode. because i wanna sort this thing as soon as possible so i can concetrate on other stuff i got in mind, could you give me any advice from your experience? has any of you fixed pine to work with local cashing? which mail + news clients do you use? thanks in advance for any help... Regards --Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message