Boy am I on a roll here..
A quote from the http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/FAQs.html page
snip--
1.10 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, 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.
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 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://locke.ccil.org/~esr/fetchmail/
<http://locke.ccil.org/esr/fetchmail/>
--snip
HTH,
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Clayton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 1998 6:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Need help retrieving mail with Pine
>
> Thanks for all those who have helped me get a mail program going.
>
> I've been able to use Pine to send mail and to access and read news,
> but so far I haven't hit on the appropriate configuration to retrieve
> mail from my isp. Any help appreciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9793/
