Net connection Problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:32 -0700, Karl Pearson wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:12 -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:10:13PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>OK, now I've got some questions - one reason for putting
> >>>>fetchmail on a different machine was it's always on so there is
> >>>>less chance of mail building up on the internet.  The other
> >>>>reason was so I could use multiple computers to read my email.
> >>>>Checking out my new /var/spool/mail directory I see my mail
> >>>>account grow when fetchmail goes out to get mail then it goes to
> >>>>zero when Pine goes and picks it up.  i have a feeling it's
> >>>>moving it to my local machine
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>That is correct.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>and this is going to mean I will
> >>>>not have access to my mail from other comptuers (like my
> >>>>notebook).  So, how do I set things up to allow that?
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Have your local email client use IMAP instead of POP3.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>OK, I've looked in the PINE setup and I don't see where I've
> >>selected POP3 over IMAP or how to change it to IMAP.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> Pine is IMAP only, but you have to have lines similar to:
> 
> user-domain=yourdomain
> inbox-path={imapserver}INBOX

Correction.  From the PINE FAQ:

9.3 Can Pine be used with a POP server?
Versions of PC-Pine prior to 4.00 cannot be used with a POP (Post Office
Protocol) server. With Unix Pine, and with PC-Pine 4.00 and after, you
can access a POP server in "online" mode. That is, Pine will start a
POP3 session and keep it open until the mailbox is closed. Due to the
nature of the POP3 protocol, Pine will not see any new mail which
arrives during the POP3 session. Thus new mail only arrives upon
starting a session.

To access the message INBOX on a POP3 server, use the folder definition
syntax:

{pop3server/pop3}INBOX

or, especially useful if your POP account user-id is different from the
one in your Pine configuration:

{pop3server/pop3/user=popuserid}INBOX

where pop3server is the hostname of the POP3 server, and popuserid is
your user-id for your POP account. However, this method accesses the POP
server in quasi-online mode, not in offline mode, which POP was designed
for. Accessing the inbox on a POP3 server with Pine does not preserve
changes to message flags (New, Answered, Deleted, etc.) between
sessions.

(I just found that myself)
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