setup POP3 clinet pine

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

goose bla:


>hello,
>please
>how can i setup pine like POP3 client ?.. 
>i cannot find how-to about it, and man is unapplicable. 
>
>goose
>  
>

Dan Kilbourne:

>goose bla extolled:
>
>I recommend you run fetchmail (available in ports) to fetch your POP3
>mail, then use pine to read your local mail spool.
>
>You can create a .fetchmailrc with a line like this:
>(other stuff will need to be in there for it to work well)
>
>poll $SERVER proto pop3 user "$USER" pass "$PASS" is \
>$LOCALUSER here options fetchall warnings 3600;
>
>where :
>	$SERVER    == mail servername
>	$USER      == mail username
>	$PASS      == mail password
>	$LOCALUSER == local user account that will run pine
>
>I use this with mutt and it works flawlessly, and someone else uses it
>with pine on my machine with no issues. Would this solve it for you?
>
>That being said, you can also apparently use pine to directly pop your
>mail.
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pine+pop3&btnG=Google+Search
>seems to give some links with info on it. 
>
>Personally, I think since pine was originally designed to read directly
>from a mail spool, I would go the fetchmail route.
>  
>

A second to what Dan has said, and a pointer to
the FreeBSD handbook, which has a brief section
on both fetchmail and procmail, which can be useful
when run in concert with each other.  I also prefer mutt
for reading mail from /var/mail in console; for
eye candy in X I do use mozilla mail... and I recommend
either.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey