From owner-mint@fishpool.com Sun Jul 6 00:44:20 2003 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 18:41:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim DeClercq To: Martin Tarenskeen Cc: MiNT Mailing List Subject: Re: [MiNT] Telnet? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: jimd@panix.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: There is nothing wrong with using fetchmail and pine to read mail, but I do not have to. I have a shell login account that I can reach by telnet, and read mail there, without the procedural bother of moving mail to a spoolfile on my hard drive. I have done that sort of thing before, and noticed how long it took to move 1000 messages to my machine, when I was working out of town and did not have a computer with me. When I got home for the weekend, there were that many messages waiting. With what I have I can reach my mail from any Windoze box, using telnet. Now I want to do the same thing from MiNT, using Toswin, and am not making rapid progress. Jim On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jim DeClercq wrote: > > > That is nice, but my want is to use a telnettable host's version > > of Pine to read my rather extensive mail. > > > > What's wrong with using the local SpareMiNT version of pine to read your > mail ? Either with or without using fetchmail ? Fetchmail is not in the > easymint package, you can get it on the SpareMiNT site. > > I use this combination every day. > > -- > > Martin Tarenskeen >