On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Jose Sanchez was very kind to explain to me that PINE uses mail very
> differently from Netscape, that is, that Netscape gets its mail directly
> from Sendmail while Pine has to have a a mail handler set up outside of
> pine so that mail will be dropped into my ~.mail directory, where PINE
> will find inbound messages upon startup.
Hmmm. On my system (and several other UNIX systems I've shell accounts
on) Pine uses /var/spool/mail/username as the default mailbox. It creates
a ~/mail directory to keep sent messages and other personal mail folders
in, but the default inbox should be in /var/spool/mail.
> I am a non-techie but, after my experience last night (when I was stuck
> in the console for hours), I would very much like to use PINE so that I
> could always communicate with the list and with the outside world in
> case I am again, for any reason, unable to get into XWindows. I know how
> to navigate in PINE and can send mail but cannot receive it. How do I
> configure my Pop3 so that I can receive mail in PINE?
Get two RPMS- fetchmail and fetchmailconf. Fetchmail is an excellent
program to get mail from POP and/or IMAP servers, and fetchmailconf is an
excellent GUI config program for fetchmail.
Fetchmail should be installed already, but fetchmailconf is not in the
default install. Look first in Cooker for the package; if it's not there,
I'd suggest looking at http://rpmfind.net - they keep an excellent
database of rpms.
Fetchmail will (by default) deposit mail it finds in
/var/spool/mail/username (which is also the default for Pine). Thus, very
little extra configuration is needed!
-Matt Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
