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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