Net connection Problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:41 -0800, 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 an mbox reader...it doesn't do POP or IMAP.  It just reads your
> LOCAL mailbox.  It has no concept of network operations.  You need
> fetchmail (or another MUA) to do the actual POP/IMAP fetch into your
> local mbox.

Oops!  My mistake.  PINE didn't use to use other protocols.  The latest
versions do have IMAP support (but not POP as near as I can see).

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