From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 14:30:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kristen.shadowdale.net (omah6400gw2poolB3.omah.uswest.net [63.227.157.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B99637B423 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hey9811@yahoo.com) Received: from localhost (hey9811@localhost) by kristen.shadowdale.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28444 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:31:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hey9811@yahoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kristen.shadowdale.net: hey9811 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:31:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Virtual Bob Cc: freeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: PINE -> checking for email In-Reply-To: <3AE7309F.4BF0791A@journalstar.com> 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 > I used fetchmail, which is available in the mail section of ports to > do this for awhile. I tried to find native POP support in Pine and > couldn't. > ... Simple enough. Edit the pinerc under "inbox-path=" do: inbox-path={pop.mail.yahoo.com/pop3}INBOX where pop.mail.yahoo.com is the name of the server. Now evertime you start pine, it will ask you the userid and passwd for the pop account. Something to note, though... It's bit quirky. I agree fetchmail is the more elegant solution. ------------- clip here with virtual scissors -------------- ************************************************************ Keyboard stuck error. Press F1 to continue. Any unsolicited e-mails will be charged US$500 per e-mail, plus court cost. Your contribution to Bill Gates' personal wealth: US$359.17 ************************************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message