PINE - was Re: [plug] Linux.Conf.Au Update.

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, quoth Bret Busby:

> With using PINE outside XWindows, I understood that a text-based web
> browser has to be used; and that it is easy enough to set up the default
> browser for Netscape or whatever, but that works for GUI browsers, only
> when PINE is run within an xterm session,

Not necessarily - just make sure your DISPLAY environment variable is set
correctly (normally ":0") eg type "export DISPLAY=:0" before running pine
and that your .Xauthority is set up right (which if you are running pine
as the same user that X is running as, it will be set up ok)

> other words, running PINE from a terminal or console session (I
> wouldn't mind knowing the correct term for it),

"Virtual Console" is probably the right term (see "man console")

> >From what I understand, the mail server, using postfix, is POP.

Your mail server has nothing to do with mail collection, unless you are
running courier - which is an evil beast and shall never be mentioned here
again. *grin*

IMAP is the way to go if you wish to acces your mail on the
server interactively.  Just install one of the main imap servers and tell
pine to use it. wu-imapd is probably the best choice since it was written
by the same people who wrote pine (washington uni)

Also, while pine is a GREAT email reader (IMHO), filtering is best left to
the "experts" (eg procmail)

 - Matt