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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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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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