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  • From: qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Pine and BL2
  • Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:39:53 +0000

James Miller wrote:
>
> To use Pine as a popmail checker (to view messages on the
> server and delete them, if needed, without necessarily
> downloading them to the local machine)

This sounds like webmail (online mail reading/writing).
Can Pine simply download the entire batch of mail from
the POP3 server and let you read the messages offline?

> {nameofyour.popserver/user=yourusername/pop3}INBOX

Where does the password go?

> "Inbox" is typically the name of the folder on your pop server
> where your mail is stored,

My POP3 server has no folders. Will Pine work without some
sort of box on the server?

> navigate to your inbox in Pine, and when you enter it, you'll
> be prompted for your password. The client then downloads a
> list of messages through which you can scroll, hitting enter
> to view those you want to read.

It sounds like all of this is being done online. I don't
see how this is different from using a browser to read/write
webmail.

It appears that pine is a reader/writer, not a transport
agent. I was hoping it would do both (like netscape mail),
so it could replace both mailz (the BL2 reader/writer) and
pmail (the BL2 transport agent). It looks like pine will
be a good substitute for mailz, but it will still need
pmail to do the uploading/downloading.

> ("C" stands for configuration). In the configuration menu,
> use the up/down arrow to highlight "inbox-path" and hit enter.

The pmail inbox is: ~/mail/inbox
If you put that in the pine "inbox-path", pine will probably
find the mail that pmail downloads. Ditto the "outbox-path".
Assuming this works, you could then edit /usr/bin/mail and
replace the following line:
--------------------------------------
6) mailz -p ~/mail/outbox ~/mail/inbox
--------------------------------------
I'm guessing that all you would need is: 6) pine

Anybody looking for a replacement for the weird mail reader
in BL2 (mailz) should give this a try. Please report back
if it works.

Cheers,
Steven





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