imap with pine?

[Alex Snow]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

I'd say the most niticeable difference is that with pop3 the messages 
are downloaded to your local machine and then you work with them but 
with imap you work with messages directly on the server. it's great 
for reading mail with multiple computers.
On 
Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:10:27PM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> What exactly are the differences between the pop3 and Imap protocols?
> Jes and Harley
> Email: jesman598 at triad.rr.com
> Msn instant messenger: subman70 at hotmail.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:11 PM
> Subject: Re: imap with pine?
> 
> 
> Pine and IMAP are brainchildren of the University of Washington.  At
> least, I think IMAP came from there.  So Pine works very well with
> it.  Basically, put the server neme inside of braces like so:
> {imap-server}/inbox
> You can specify this on your primar inbox folder and for your
> postponed and sent messages.  You can also set up multiple folders to
> so you can break up your inbound mail and have it tossed into separate
> folders for different lists or whatever.  I've done the IMAP thing for
> several years now with both Pine and Mutt.  I especially like IMAP so
> I can read my mail from several different boxes (both winblows and
> linux) and be able to use the same mail folders with full continuity.
> 
> I think the help screens for Pine show an example of setting up for
> IMAP with the braces as I showed above.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:55:46PM -0500, cris wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > Finally my linux is running with a wireless card, thanks to Bill Acker.  My question is:  have any of you tried to configure
> pine to run an Imap server?  I know that it runs with the smtp for incoming.  However my incoming server is an imap server.  How
> can I access it?  If pine does not support the imap incoming mail server, what other linux program does?  I appreciate your help.
> > Cheers,
> > Cris
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> 
> --
> HolmesGrown Solutions
> The best solutions for the best price!
> http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

- -- 
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid
back.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAQxyT9XVrM3ri110RAr4rAJ9AmuaCaB4QIPy9GndfoyrF7tKJUgCcCUff
uier1SkgQX0aKpDBQlUSDeA=
=dhbj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----