From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 15:26:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C231C37B423 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 534FEA876; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:25:23 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:25:23 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" Cc: Francois Kritzinger , freeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: PINE -> checking for email Message-ID: <20010425172523.B75534@cec.wustl.edu> References: <3AE71B0E.9AD109EA@iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@fear.net on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:45:35PM -0400 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:45:35PM -0400, Thomas (Matt) Barton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Francois Kritzinger wrote: > > > How do you get pine to check for email? > > > > I can SEND mail using pine, but not GET mail. > > > > I can send+recieve in Netscape though, so sendmail is working I > > guess... > > PINE doesn't do POP3. You'd have to install fetchmail in order to get > your e-mail to your UNIX mailbox, which PINE can easy do. PINE can do > IMAP and will work for you only if your mail server supports it. > > Mutt, which is another console-based e-mail reader, supports POP3. Or you can do like me, and have things the cool way. I used to use fetchmail with mutt, but for some reason, fetchmail stopped working with my server. Rather than dick around with the moron administrators that always seem to work on university networks, I simply set up my own mailserver, and got myself a free hostname from dyndns.org. They give you an MX entry with that. This way, I just create a .forward on the mail server, and enjoy local UNIX mail the way it was intended. :) PS: I would suggest you try out mutt, even if not for POP3. I used to use pine, but mutt is much more configurable, and is all-around better than pine. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message