Re: Using pine for internet mail

My understanding is that hotmail, lycos, and the other web-based free email accounts deliberately do NOT provide alternate access to your email box. Their business model is based on being able to push advertising at their users, and people using POP3/pine/etc wouldn't see them. On Wed, Sep 09, 19

AW: Using pine for internet mail

> C.J.LAWSON asked: >Please could someone give me a pointer as to how to use pine to > access > my hotmail and lycos accounts? > Assuming that they support access to your mailboxes using POP3, you might want to check out the fetchmail package. HTH, Thomas

Using pine for internet mail

Hi, Please could someone give me a pointer as to how to use pine to access my hotmail and lycos accounts? Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedf