From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 0:37:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE79E37B41C for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0F8bg874641; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:37:42 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201150837.g0F8bg874641@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Bernie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail + news In-Reply-To: <20020115074752.E271-100000@BLAST> From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:37:42 -0700 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 On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:01:21 +0200 (EET) Bernie wrote: +------------------ | | 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. | +------------------ [...] +------------------ | i posted in the pine group and got a reply saying that i should | look into things like fetchmail + leafnode. +------------------ Sounds like good advice to me. Different news readers will suffer similar problems to what you see now. Pulling down three or four groups can be quite a reasonable compromise. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message