Net connection Problem

[Karl Pearson]

Rick Stevens wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:32 -0700, Karl Pearson wrote:
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>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:12 -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
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>>>>On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
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>>>>>On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:10:13PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
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>>>>>>On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
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>>>>>>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
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>>>>>That is correct.
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>>>>>>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?
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>>>>>Have your local email client use IMAP instead of POP3.
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>>>>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.
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>>Pine is IMAP only, but you have to have lines similar to:
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>>user-domain=yourdomain
>>inbox-path={imapserver}INBOX
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>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:
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>{pop3server/pop3}INBOX
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>or, especially useful if your POP account user-id is different from the
>one in your Pine configuration:
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>{pop3server/pop3/user=popuserid}INBOX
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>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.
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>(I just found that myself)
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You're obviously more studious than I. I've used Pine for years and 
never read the FAQ.  Nice work.

Karl

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