Re: pop3

[Donald Page <donaldp@sco.COM>]

Hi Fabrice,

If you look in the c-client directory you'll see that by default pine
includes code for handling pop3 as well as imap, though its not really
documented today.  If I remember correctly, it tries imap first and if
that fails it will then try pop3 to get at the remote mailbox.

All my mail servers today use imap, so its a little hard for me to verify
anymore - if you want some more info there is a very good newsgroup
comp.mail.pine which will give a definitive answer.

Cheers,
	Donald

On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Fabrice Gamberini wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 23 Apr 1997, Donald (donaldp@caspio.london.sco.com) wrote:
> 
> >Yes I have used pop3 quite happily to download my email to my Atari.
> >I used mintnet and a little mailer which I wrote, but since pine is
> >available, I would recommend using that.  If you're stuck, I can give you
> >my configuration files.
> 
> Correct me if i'm wrong but from reading the Pine docs i don't think
> it does mail retrieval with POP3. Instead it seems to use IMAP which 
> apparently is quite different.
> 
> So you still have to use a pop agent to fetch the messages - before 
> reading them with pine. 
> 
> bye 
> 
> Fabrice
>