Bill - Many thanks for these tips. One more reason why I prefer email to the reflector - I have saved your message and Jacob's earlier one and can consult them when I am ready to give it a whirl! <g> Chuck On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > Actually, Pine *does* support the inferior pop3 protocol. Just put the > parameter /pop3 after the name of the mailserver just to the left of the > right brace. For example: {pop1.prserv.net/pop3}. Another handy > parameter > is the /user parm that can be put at the end of the above mentioned. EG > {pop1.prserv.net/pop3/user=wacker}. That way, you'll only be prompted for > the password. > > > > > HTH. > Bill in Denver > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jacob Schmude wrote: > > > HI > > Chuck, this just started to happen. I've never had a problem with > > fetchmail before, so I'm thinking maybe it's sendmail doing it, but I'm > > not sure why. As you probably know, fetchmail does only part of the > > delivery. It delivers it to sendmail, which then gives it to the user. I > > know sendmail can send, as I just did it to report my fetchmail trouble > > (I.e. I do not use my ISP's smtp server), because sendmail is quicker. > > > > As far as my plan b goes, here's how you do it: > > Go into pine's configuration menu and find the variable for inbox-path. > > Set this to: > > {mailserver.somewhere.net}INBOX > > Note the braces, these are required around the mail server name. INBOX is > > also in all caps and there's no space between it and the mailserver, only > > a closing brace. Pine will then, when it starts, open the remote inbox and > > ask you for you're username and password. After that, you're actually > > acting on your remote inbox, mail is not locally downloaded. It's worth > > noting that pop3 is NOT supported. Only the IMAP protocol, which is > > faster anyway. My guess is that you use pop3 because you use nettamer. I'm > > probably > > lucky, my ISP happens to allow you to use both. > > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > > Jacob - > > > > > > rereading your message I am not sure if your problem is a transient one > > > like mine, happening only rarely, or if you have never been able to get > > > fetchmail to work for you. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh I'm sorry, but my kharma just ran over your dogma.