From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 06:37:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA28404 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 06:37:45 -0800 Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA28397 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 06:37:38 -0800 Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA03517; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 09:37:44 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 09:37:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Donald Burr , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pop client In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Doug White wrote: > > Actually, pine (at least, 3.91) does support reading remote mail using > > pop3. Add this in your .pinerc [snip] > > It seems to me, though, that the POP3 may not be working right (?) -- I > > get a lot of erorr messages when ever I try to use it, but maybe it's due > > to Netcom's stupid POP server(?) > > I'd tend to believe this one. :) definately buggy. i just tried to get 60 messages using pine and pop3. internal error. pine exits. it fetches 2 messages successfully. with 10 messages on the pop3 server, it gets the headers only. jmb Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG