Re: [MiNT] Telnet?

[Jim DeClercq <jimd@panix.com>]

There is nothing wrong with using fetchmail and pine to read
mail, but I do not have to. I have a shell login account that I
can reach by telnet, and read mail there, without the procedural
bother of moving mail to a spoolfile on my hard drive.

I have done that sort of thing before, and noticed how long it
took to move 1000 messages to my machine, when I was working out
of town and did not have a computer with me. When I got home for
the weekend, there were that many messages waiting.

With what I have I can reach my mail from any Windoze box, using
telnet. Now I want to do the same thing from MiNT, using Toswin,
and am not making rapid progress.

Jim

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jim DeClercq wrote:
>
> > That is nice, but my want is to use a telnettable host's version
> > of Pine to read my rather extensive mail.
> >
>
> What's wrong with using the local SpareMiNT version of pine to read your
> mail ? Either with or without using fetchmail ? Fetchmail is not in the
> easymint package, you can get it on the SpareMiNT site.
>
> I use this combination every day.
>
> --
>
> Martin Tarenskeen
>