Re: pine with webmail

[André Allavena <]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006, Michael P. Lococo wrote:
> > Has someone managed to configure pine to extract emails from the central
> > cornell mail server to the local machine (something like what fetchmail
> > does) ?
> 
> Pine will do this automatically if you use POP.  If you configure Pine to
> leave messages on the server, you'll still be able to sort of use webmail
> (are filters and folders and such broken by pop?).

If you're willing to switch from pine to Mutt (an other text based
email client, much more powerful by the way) 
Mutt can handle both Imap and Pop remote accounts.

If you're new to Mutt, note that the default editor may be vi (or vim)
depending on your configuration, but you can easily set it to pico
(the editor Pine uses) or anything else with for example

set editor="emacs -T xterm +6"
 in your .muttrc

André
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André Allavena
Post-Doctoral Fellow
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, ON, Canada