[ale] POP3 Mail Clients

Chris Ricker chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu
Tue Sep 12 18:04:08 EDT 2000


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Russell Enderby wrote:

> 
> Anyone know if there is a way to configure Pine or Elm to recieve from a
> POP3 server not on the linux box?  I am able to configure pine to send
> to a SMTP server elsewhere but not recieve from a POP3 server.  Can they
> do that or is there another client that can?

For PINE's built-in POP3 client, you define the folder something like

{hostname.of.pop3server/pop3/user=popusername}INBOX

When you open up that folder, it'll ask for your password and then connect.

However, the best solution under Unix is to use fetchmail to pop / imap /
whatever your mail down from the server, and then use whatever MUA you
like....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
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