popping mail

[Steve Holmes]

Yes, I especially like this so I can read my mail, currently housed on my
linux mail server at home, from several different machines including one I
use at work running pc Pine for Winblows.  Can I do imap with mutt? if
not, I'll have to stick with pine.  I'm curious about mutt but if I go
pop3, I lose this flexibility I mentioned above.

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:

> Now why would you say that, Thomas, Why?
>
>      Amanda: to use pop3 with pine, set your inbox variable in pine to
> something like: {pop.isp.com/pop3}inbox note the braces.
> This assumes that your username on the server is the same as it is on the
> local system.  If it isn't do:
> {pop.isp.com/pop3/user=remote_user_name}inbox
> It's possible that the server also supports IMAP.  In that case just leave
> off the /pop3 part.  Imap is much nicer.  It's even possible to set Pine
> to use all your remote folders as if they were local with IMAP.
>
>
>
>           HTH.
>           Bill
>
>
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
> > Hi, amanda. Pine doesn't support pop3. It's something they simply haven't
> > done.
> > So you have to use something like fetchmail to retreave the mail, or change
> > your inbox path to the server where your mail gets kept.
>
>
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