Re: tlug: Question on Pine

["J. David Beutel" <jdb@example.com>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Alan B. Stone wrote:

> It seems I have now configured Pine so I can send messages, but how can I
> set it up to POP the mail server when I start?  I would appreciate some

Pine uses IMAP rather than POP.  If you want all your email downloaded
in bulk to your local system, you might find `fetchmail` useful.

However, not downloading everything is a feature of IMAP, because:
1. you can access your old mail, with proper status, from another host;
2. you choose which messages to download (e.g., from a mailing list);
3. you choose which attachments to download.

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