| >                 can any1 gimme any pointers as to HOW TO CONFIGURE PINE
| > FOR DOWNLOAD MESSAGES FROM A POP3 AND/OR IMAP SERVER?
|
| can't be done.  pine reads directly from /var/spool/mail/$USER
| It will not read mail from any other place.  You will have to use
| fetchmail to get the mail from the pop3/imap server and then you can use
| pine to read it.  alternatively, use mutt.

Actually, you can. I don't remember exactly how, but you need to specify
something like "hostname:foldername" for IMAP folders. IIRC, PINE cannot get
a list of IMAP folders, but can read from the folders that you tell it.


Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://lunateks.com


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