From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 19:40:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294883E3E for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from confusion.net (user-2iveaac.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.41.76]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA22595; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:35:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38A4D498.DD409DC2@confusion.net> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:33:44 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dru Cc: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't receive mail with pine References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dru wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Laurence Berland wrote: > > > > > > Actually, pine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing email. If you > > > want a POP3 client, you'll need something like fetchmail or wmpop. > > > > Last I checked you could read IMAP and POP3 mail from pine. Am I > > misreading you or am I just plain wrong? > > I'm not sure :) You can read email fetched via either POP3 or IMAP4 > protocols, but you still need a POP3/IMAP4 client to fetch that mail > before you can read and manage it. Did that make sense?!? > > Dru I'm pretty sure that pine will fetch POP3 mail if you tell it to (overriding the default local /var deal). I'm not quite sure fetch is the right way to describe IMAP. I've also been told there are no truly good IMAP clients yet. Any suggestions? (Ducks in anticipation of holy war :) -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 2000 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message