Dear friends:
This incredibly easy and fully effective way to configure Pine comes to
you (and me) courtesy of Ramon Gandia, one of the great gurus on our
list:
1) Install Pine. It should, of course, come already installed on your
Linux machine.
2) Type "pine" on the command line (without the quotes). This will
launch Pine. Now exit Pine (click on E, then Quit). This creates a
.pinerc file in your home directory.
3) Now, using any text editor, open it to /home/user/.pinerc (note the
period, which indicates a hidden file.
4) Look for a section called ESSENTIAL PARAMETERS. You need to fill out
ONLY the following for Pine to operate fully as a mail and news client
from remote networks. I use it to get my mail from Bellsouth. I use it
as a backup for Netscape, especially when I am in the console stuck and
need to get in touch with someone.
Type in the following information. I am providing my own info as a
sample.
1)
#Over-rides your full name from Unix password file.
#Required for PC-Pine.
personal-name=Benjamin Sher
2)
#Sets domain part of From...
Leave this section blank!
3)
#List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine.
#uses sendmail.
smtp-server=mail.msy.bellsouth.net
4)
NNTP server for posting news. Also sets news-collections
#for news reading.
nntp-server=news.msy.bellsouth.net
5)
This is the most critical one:
#path of (local or remote) INBOX...
#Normal Unix default...
#INBOX (usually /usr/spool/...
inbox-path={msy.bellsouth.net/pop3}INBOX
Please note that in this last stage you need only fill out the last
line, that is, the "inbox-path" line, just as you see above. And you
must use the curlicue brackets (or whatever they are called) instead of
the ordinary brackets (Shift + brackets). And NO spaces anywhere. One
uninterrupted lined.
Now save the file. Open Pine and you should get a request for your IP
user name and password.
We both owe Ramon Gandia our appreciation for finding such a simple
solution. It works perfectly and should allow you to receive and send
mail and news flawlessly.
All my best.
Benjamin
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> I don't think so. You pretty much have to use fetchmail and postfix to
> fetch the mail from pop3, and IMAP servers. Pine was designed primarily as
> an intranet (LAN mail system) where it accesses the mail from the local
> mail spool.
>
> --
> Mark
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>
> On 3 Aug 2000, Michael Scottaline wrote:
>
> > Harry Flaxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I haven't used Pine in quite awhile. I can't remember the configuration
> > > line that will make Pine read from a remote mail and news server. I
> > > know that I had this working years ago, when I first started with Linux.
> > >
> > > Can someone help me to configure Pine for remote retrieval, without
> > > using fetchmail or sendmail?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Harry
> > ==============================================
> > Doesn't Pine have a place to setup a popmail account someplace in the
> > configs??
> > Mike
> >
> > "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol
> > than alcohol has taken out of me."
> > --Winston Churchill
> >
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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