From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 10:55:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA09268 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:55:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ratbert.aisol.net (ratbert.aisol.net [202.233.42.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA09229 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ratbert.aisol.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA02146; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:44:00 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:43:59 +0900 (JST) From: Arizona Coyote X-Sender: coyote@ratbert To: beef@tht.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail problem with ppp connection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Install the "popclient" port (/usr/ports/mail/popclient). Not surprisingly, popclient is a POP client. It will POP your mail from your ISP account to your mailbox on your FreeBSD box. Then, you cna read your e-mail with Pine as usual. Hope this helps! On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Lanny Baron wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for taking the time to read this. > > I have pine 3.96 installed and dial in via PPP to my ISP. The problem > is, I can't get my mail from the ISP with pine. I have to use > a windows based mailer. > > Can some one please tell me how to get pine to pick up my mail from > the host rather than have to use windows to retrieve mail. > > Thank you for any help which you may be able to provide > > Lanny Mark Andres E-mail: coyote@ratbert.aisol.net / 100% Microsoft Free thanks to NetBSD and FreeBSD! \ Mac Centris 650: NetBSD 1.2-current IBM ThinkPad 220: FreeBSD 3.0-current Macintosh IIcx: NetBSD 1.2.1 | http://bullwinkle.aisol.net/