From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 14 19:27:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66E137B42C for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 19:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f4F2RKk43118; Mon, 14 May 2001 19:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Doug Young" , , "Damien Champagne" Subject: RE: POP email client for darwin Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:27:20 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c0dce6$91360800$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <042b01c0dc5b$16f4cad0$0300a8c0@oracle> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think that PINE is only an IMAP client, but in any case you would probably be better off using pine and IMAP instead of a POP3 client, assuming your mail provider supports it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:49 AM >To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Damien Champagne >Subject: Re: POP email client for darwin > > >I've been using pine to collect mail from remote POP servers for a >couple >years at least .... theres a bit minor bit of fiddling with pinerc >involved but >thats all (I think the info you need is in the pine FAQ, but if you >can't locate it >let me know and I'll send one of my pinerc files) > >> >> Is there an email client for freeBSD that allows for POP access? >I've >> been introduced to freeBSD via OSX. Years ago I used to use PINE as >> my email client, but even though I can run it in Darwin, I've >> realized it's not for POP (or is it?) The Mail application that >ships >> with OSX is lousy, and I'd like to do much more in the command-line >> environment. >> >> Also, is there anything I can do to spread freeBSD (and open-source) >> in the world? >> >> Thank You, Damien Champagne >> _______________ >> Damien Champagne >> >> Evil Genius: Slugs! He created slugs! They can't hear, they can't >> speak, they can't operate machinery. If I were creating the world, I >> wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would've >> started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one. >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message