[Alpine-info] One last question before bed / and Thank ya'll!

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote:


> Well, that's kinda hard when you're a " PACKRAT" and keep just about 

> EVERYTHING sent to you / and sent by you. I am only using IMAP due to 

> being forced to by ALPINE. I couldn't get a POP3 connect to set up and 

> work with ALPINE.


What does this mean? If you mean to have Alpine download messages to your 
computer, Alpine does not do that, because the pop3 protocol does not 
force clients to download messages. You can choose to do that. The 
confusion that people normally have is that they think that pop is a 
download messages protocol, that is, if you read the message it is gone 
from the server. That is not the case, you can read a message from a pop3 
server as many times as you would like until the email program deletes it 
from the server.

If what you are looking for is that Alpine downloads messages to your 
computer you can do that with any protocol: pop3 or imap, but in order to 
do that you need to set up what Alpine calls a "maildrop". Here are two 
sources of information for you:

https://alpineapp.email/alpine/alpine-info/maildrop/

and the internal help, following this link in Alpine: x-alpine-help:h_maildrop.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Eduardo