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DATE | 2001-12-06 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Fwd: pine & pop3 [vagn@ranok.com]
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Dec 6 07:35:19 2001 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id fB6CZIK08742 for hangout-desteny; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:35:18 -0500 Received: from www2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id fB6CZHY08737 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:35:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:35:17 -0500 From: Ruben Safir To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: [hangout] Fwd: pine & pop3 [vagn-at-ranok.com] Message-ID: <20011206073517.A8727-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <3C0EC4D5.2F04377B-at-ranok.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3C0EC4D5.2F04377B-at-ranok.com>; from vagn-at-ranok.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 20:07:33 -0500 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.3 Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Ruben Safir List: New Yorkers Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribename-at-domian.com to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Keywords: X-UID: 19509 Status: RO Content-Length: 2535 Lines: 72
On 2001.12.05 20:07:33 -0500 Vagn Scott wrote: See http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/config.html#9.3
9.3 Can Pine be used with a POP server?
Versions of PC-Pine prior to 4.00 cannot be used with a POP (Post Office Protocol) server. With Unix Pine, and with PC-Pine 4.00 and after, you can access a POP server in "online" mode. That is, Pine will start a POP3 session and keep it open until the mailbox is closed. Due to the nature of the POP3 protocol, Pine will not see any new mail which arrives during the POP3 session. Thus new mail only arrives upon starting a session.
To access the message INBOX on a POP3 server, use the folder definition syntax:
{pop3server/pop3}INBOX
or, especially useful if your POP account user-id is different from the one in your Pine configuration:
{pop3server/pop3/user=popuserid}INBOX
where pop3server is the hostname of the POP3 server, and popuserid is your user-id for your POP account. However, this method accesses the POP server in quasi-online mode, not in offline mode, which POP was designed for. Accessing the inbox on a POP3 server with Pine does not preserve changes to message flags (New, Answered, Deleted, etc.) between sessions.
As an alternative, a program such as fetchmail (which supercedes popclient) can be used to download email from a POP server to a local Unix account, where it can then be accessed with Pine. fetchmail can be obtained from:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/
For a more detailed comparison of the POP and IMAP protocols, and discussion of the various message access modes (online, offline, disconnected), see:
Message Access Paradigms and Protocols RFC-1733: Distributed Electronic Mail Models in IMAP4
Pine does not support the old POP2 protocol, and there are no plans to do so.
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