From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 10:24:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00807 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org ([206.138.229.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00784 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (david@localhost) by stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA04039; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:22:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:22:12 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek To: Kenneth Chiu cc: "Joseph A. Chonko" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on un*x In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Kenneth Chiu wrote: > >From the main pine menu, go into setup and then config. > > On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Joseph A. Chonko wrote: > > I checked the faq and there is nothing that can help > > me to say where I can place my pop3 account and my smtp address. How > > can I do this so I can recieve and send mail from bsd? > > -Joseph Chonko > > MTU > > jachonko@mtu.edu Edit your .pinerc file in your ~/ home directory. Look for these lines. # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail. smtp-server=mail.server.here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox # Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER). inbox-path={pop3.server.here/pop3}INBOX ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ notice the format Then save and restart Pine. -- David L. Vondrasek dlv@watertower.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message