From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 05:32:02 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA12144 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 05:32:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from kona.javanet.com (kona.javanet.com [205.219.162.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA12131 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 05:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from myname.my.domain ([206.103.15.15]) by kona.javanet.com (8.8.4/8.7) with SMTP id IAA01845; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 08:34:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32C520B4.167EB0E7@javanet.com> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 08:29:24 -0500 From: "John D. Szumowski" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Nugent CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pine setup... References: <32C1A8E5.41C67EA6@javanet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Nugent wrote: > > Andrew Y Ng writes: > > u have to have an imap server for PINE to work, imho. > > No, only if you wish to access your mail from another system > via the network. For local use, Pine does not use the imap > server. > > > > of my 2.1.5 cd, but haven't been able to get it to work properly. i just > > > have a dial up account. pine doesn't recognize, or seem to contact my > > > mail server. what options do i need to change (when i setup my bsd > > > networking stuff, i didn't bother changing the generic > > > "myname.mydomain.com"...) > > To access a remote mailbox (assuming that you want to access > your mail box on your /providers/ system, and that your provider > does in fact run an imap server), then use the mailbox spec > {your.providers.fqdn}INBOX. For local mailbox, just a path > to the mailbox is fine (or just INBOX, which is the default > for /var/mail/yourid). Unfortunately, John, your question was > sufficiently vague that any advice offered has a good chance > of being wrong. > > > > any help would be appreciated. (yes, i do have mail.javanet.com listed > > > as the smtp server, and javanet.com as the user domain. what else?) > > This suggests you need a local mail reading config, in which > case, Pine should work. What errors is Pine reporting? > Ok...let me get this straight. Pine works *fine* for local email. That however, doesn't help since I'm the only user of this machine. Anyways, I'm waiting to hear from my isp's tech-support as to whether they run imap or not. I don't know. I just want to be able to pull messages off my shell account (@ javanet). Pine, I have heard, doesn't support pop, so I guess I'm going to have to look into another mail program (which is too bad since pine is pretty nice). > Regards, > > David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia > Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet > davidn@freefall.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/ -- =---------=----------------------------------------=---------= | ((___)) | "You can tune a file system, but you | ((___)) | | [ x x ] | can't tune a fish." -tunefs man page | [ x x ] | | \ / =----------------------------------------= \ / | | (' ') | John Szumowski - harpo@javanet.com | (' ') | | (U) =----------------------------------------= (U) | =---------= =---------=