Re: Troubles with mail clients

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Katherine L Ellis wrote:

> I don't know what's wrong., But I can tell you to use FETCHMAIL. It
> works great, Easy to use and to install, (very easy actually).
> Fast, smooth, I love it..

I'm using a small program simply called pop3, it works very well here.
It needs a delivery program though (smail, sendmail).

> PINE by default will use IMAP, so you need to redirect your PINE to
> read the local mailbox.

Not correct, pine will by default use the standard unix mailbox, i.e.
/var/spool/mail/$user.


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