Dear Paul and friends:
The following instructions are courtesy of Ramon Gandia, one of the
great gurus on our Mandrake list.
There is NO NEED whatsoever to use fetchmail or sendmail or any other
program to configure Pine. In fact, configuring it is one of the easiest
things in the world of Linux. Here are the 1-2-3 steps:
1) in xterm type as user "pine" (without the quotes). This will bring up
Pine and create a hidden file .pinerc in your home directory. Now close
down Pine by typing Quit.
2) Now open any text editor and bring up the .pinerc file you just
created. Remember that this file will NOT exist until you first launch
Pine as in step 1.
Now the rest is as easy as pie:
Just fill out the following information. Below is the relevant section
from my .pinerc:
# Over-rides your full name from Unix password file. Required for
PC-Pine. personal-name=Benjamin Sher
# Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail.
user-domain=
# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses
sendmail. smtp-server=mail.msy.bellsouth.net
# NNTP server for posting news. Also sets news-collections for news
reading. nntp-server=news.msy.bellsouth.net
# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox #
Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path={msy.bellsouth.net/pop3}INBOX
3) That's it, folks!!!
Just type in your name, your mail server, news server and your INBOX,
precisely as you see above. Save your file. Now relaunch pine by typing
pine in xterm. Pine will now work perfectly. It will ask you for your
password. Type your password and your mail will be waiting for you. You
can now SEND and RECEIVE mail and REPLY and read NEWS. By the way, after
you get you mail in Pine, you will find that the same mail may be
waiting for you in Netscape. No problem. Standard procedure.
Again, don't thank me. Thank Ramon!
Yours,
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
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