Furthermore, if the mail is hosted out on another server such as at
your ISP, I would probably prefer to use POP3 but if it is IMAP, then
I would do something like use fetchmail to retrieve it all at once
like Chuck described in a previous message. My IMAP server is a local
machine under my full control so I don't mind leaving it there for
online viewing.
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:20:52AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
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> I'd say the most niticeable difference is that with pop3 the messages
> are downloaded to your local machine and then you work with them but
> with imap you work with messages directly on the server. it's great
> for reading mail with multiple computers.
> On
> Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:10:27PM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> > What exactly are the differences between the pop3 and Imap protocols?
> > Jes and Harley
> > Email: jesman598 at triad.rr.com
> > Msn instant messenger: subman70 at hotmail.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: imap with pine?
> >
> >
> > Pine and IMAP are brainchildren of the University of Washington. At
> > least, I think IMAP came from there. So Pine works very well with
> > it. Basically, put the server neme inside of braces like so:
> > {imap-server}/inbox
> > You can specify this on your primar inbox folder and for your
> > postponed and sent messages. You can also set up multiple folders to
> > so you can break up your inbound mail and have it tossed into separate
> > folders for different lists or whatever. I've done the IMAP thing for
> > several years now with both Pine and Mutt. I especially like IMAP so
> > I can read my mail from several different boxes (both winblows and
> > linux) and be able to use the same mail folders with full continuity.
> >
> > I think the help screens for Pine show an example of setting up for
> > IMAP with the braces as I showed above.
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:55:46PM -0500, cris wrote:
> > > Hi folks
> > > Finally my linux is running with a wireless card, thanks to Bill Acker. My question is: have any of you tried to configure
> > pine to run an Imap server? I know that it runs with the smtp for incoming. However my incoming server is an imap server. How
> > can I access it? If pine does not support the imap incoming mail server, what other linux program does? I appreciate your help.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Cris
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