PygmyLinux & Pine & PPP & POP3

[Peter Bantowsky]

Thanks, Eric.  Will give all that a try as soon as I've come up to speed on
the 'fetchmail' and 'sendmail' specs.  Deirdre's responses have already
prompted me into a crash tutorial on various ancillary issues... --kpab

Eric Eisenhart wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:02:25PM -0800, Peter Bantowsky wrote:
> > I recently installed Pygmy-06 [from http://www.pygmy.penguin.cz] in a
> > compact Linux box in the WIN95 msdos partition (i.e. c:\linux).  Works
> > great as basic things go.  Until you try to use 'pine' with a 'ppp'
> > (modem) link into a POP3 smtp server on the Internet.  'pppsetup' works
> > fine and accessing hosts on the Internet with 'telnet' or 'lynx' also
> > works as advertised.  Does anyone know how to configure this animal so
> > that 'pine' interoperates with the 'ppp'+'pop3'+'smtp' stuff the way
> > other "mail user agents" do, such as Netscape Communicator's Messenger?
>
> You might want to check if 'fetchmail' is installed on your system.
> Fetchmail is a program designed to pick up email from POP servers (or IMAP
> servers, etc.).
>
> Here's an example simple configuration:
> poll pop.isp.com
>   protocol POP3
>   username eric
>   password "foo"
>   is eric here
>
> There's also a 'fetchmailconf' program that can help out.
>
> Anyways, just put something like that in '.fetchmailrc', do 'chmod 0600
> .fetchmailrc' and then run 'fetchmail'.  That should put the mail in your
> local mailspool, where pine can read it.
>
> > Why bother?  Because 'pine' loads a helluva lot faster than
> > Communicator's Messenger and is a very good mail tool for zipping
> > messages out fast.
>
> Personally, I prefer mutt for that purpose.  Mutt is capable of having the
> key bindings configured, including being configured to be similar to PINE's
> configuration, and it can do POP, as well...
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