Bob,
I wanted to do this as well because I had a prefix before each user's login:
domain/username
Unfortunately Pine does not support the read of $VARs from the environment
in its configuration files (plus the use of the forward slash in the config
threw off Pine anyhow). Also Pine's POP3 handling really disappointed me.
I looked for alternatives and found Mutt. I'll never use Pine again. Yes
pine is still on my system, but only as a symbolic link to mutt. :) This
has the same Menu-driven interface as Pine but far more advanced (and in
color!). Plus it works directly with Maildir. Its POP3 handling is awesome
as it actually allows you to store mail folders locally and keep the pop3
session open. Even checking for new mail every 1 minutes or so (Pine can
not do that with POP3).
Try it out.
http://www.mutt.org
Eric
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 1999 12:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pine on remote server
We have a dedicated shell/users server so people can log in
and grab mail, etc.
We also have a dedicated pop3 and smtp server running qmail.
I would like to be able to configure pine on the shell
server to use the pop3 and smtp servers running qmail.. but
am having a problem with the "from" line...
Example:
Running pine 4.10 on Slackware 3.6.
log on shell as username: bigbob
run pine
prompts for username on pop3 server (defaults to bigbob)
press enter, all is good.. BUT!
If I enter a _different_ pop3 username _while_ logged onto
the shell server as bigbob, the return/from line is always
bigbob and not what the user entered for the pop3 username.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brad
Americanisp, LLC.
