Roadrunner & Pine

[Duane Attaway]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Goodwin, Derric E [LTD] wrote:

> Has anyone setup pine to work with their roadrunner account?

I always use fetchmail to fill up my mail spool with this command:

fetchmail -a pop-server.kc.rr.com

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/

but pine can pop the mail directly from rr (from their howto :)

Pine POP HowTo:

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 configuration: {pop3server/pop3/user=popuserid}INBOX

    1.start pine 
    2.select Setup (S) 
    3.select Configure (C) 
    4.change the following line to read as shown below
       inbox-path = {pop3server/pop3/user=popuserid}INBOX 
    5.Exit and save. 
    6.Goto your folder lists (L) 
    7.select your INBOX (arrow to highlight and then return ) 
    8.You will be asked for your POP password give it. 
    9.DONE! 

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