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Re: Newbie Pine Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chip Rose.)
Tue Dec 1 16:59:29 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:15:57 +0000 ( )
From: "Chip Rose." <ncrose@exis.net>
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jeff Williamson wrote:
> i don't remember seeing this answered; if so, my apologies.
> my understanding of pine is that it reads and composes email messages, but
> does *not*
> retrieve mail from the mail server.
>
> i would like to have one mail app that does it all; don't care much if it's
> X or not.
>
> what are some of the favorites being used now?
>
> again, sorry if this is an unwelcome post.
>
> thanks
>
> jeff
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A very welcome post! Pine composes and reads email, with folders for mail you
want to filter, etc. I was initially surprised to see that Pine doesn't
directly fetch mail from my ISP's mail server, but when I found out how to do
it, I'm more happier than ever. Read up on fetchmail, and post questions when
questions arise (they probably will - part of the fun). I keep Pine on all the
time when I'm online, and fetchmail "fetches" my mail automatically once every
four minutes, or however long I set the timer to. This way I never have to
check my mail - I just hear a tiny beep when new messages hit my Pine mailbox.
I don't know about you, but I think this is absolutely totally awesome! I just
love it. I particularly like the *full screen* interface - not half a screen
for reading messages and half for icons and useless buttons! This way I can
actually see and read the messages. But in addition to automatic filtering of
my *large* amounts of mail into Pine folders, is the ability to do PGP, inside
the Pine program, using mailPGP. I can sign messages, encrypt, decrypt, etc.,
very easily, no cut-n-paste nonsense required. NOTHING can match that, and I've
used them all.
Let me know if you need further help with fetchmail/Pine after you've read up on
it a bit.
Chip Rose.
"Pine Rules"
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