Pine E-Mail

[bryanc2000]

Sence no one could answer my question i have another one. I want to use a command line interface for a e-mail client. if anyone had any suggestions please tell me but also tell me how to set it up with it isnt just common sence.

[michboy]

I've never used pine, but I have read man pages, and its man page seems to be helpful..

$ man pine

Also check out http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/

Come back if you have any specific problems getting started

[bryanc2000]

I have already read there installation,configuration and so forth online. but i didnt see anything on how to make your pine receive your e-mails through a sertain e-mail account, sertain POP3 and so forth.

[Saptech]

Some where in the Pine menus is a choice to configure your email info...but I don't use it so I can't say exactly where. It should be fairly easy to receive email.

Also you may want to check out Mutt and Mail email clients, their text based.

[michboy]

I tried to configure mine, but I couldn't get it to work... I think it's somewhere in here:

http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/config.html#9.3

[Raskolnikov]

You should check out a program called fetchmail. It'll suck email out of any specified accounts including pop3 and its pretty cinchy to configure too. Most major distros include it.

[bryanc2000]

I have mutt and fetchmail on my computer.. I set up fetchmail in this way to get pine to receive e-mails..

mk new file named .fetchmailrc in /home/user/ dir
edit .fetchmailrc and add
poll mail.insightbb.com proto POP3 pass MYPASSWORD fetchmail

And it still doesnt work ! ? ! ?

[milanuk]

Well, as far as pine, you could always try the usenet group dedicated to pine:

comp.mail.pine

I believe this link should be to the Google Groups archive for said newsgroup:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.mail.pine&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&hl=en

And, if that doesn't get you going, you could always try Nancy McGough's excellent resources on Pine and procmail at:

www.ii.com

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get her page to load right now. But if you can (should be a temporary problem, I was looking at it last night), it is under 'Directory', and then scroll down and look at the information on Pine.

Enjoy,

Monte

[Raskolnikov]

Open a terminal in X and type fetchmailconf
This should fire up the gui configuration program which makes it a matter of pointing and clicking.

For a point of reference my .fetchmailrc looks like this:

set postmaster "Raskolnikov"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll shawmail with proto POP3
user '<MY USER NAME>' there with password'<MYPASSWORD>' is Raskolnikov here

Any deviations from this format tends to cause parse errors. Don't forget to check the file permissions!