Configuring Pine

Use these settings to configure  Pine to check your email using IMAP.  There is no POP option for Pine.

 

Mail Server : mail.megamailservers.com

inbox-path:  {mail.megamailservers.com/user=username}inbox

personal-name:  username

user-domain:       yourname.com            

 

Pine Setup Tutorial

 

1. Open Pine and choose the "SETUP" option.

 

2. Choose "C" (Config) from the setup menu.

 

3. Set the "inbox-path" configuration to read:  {mailservername/user=mailusername}inbox

 

Example:  If your email address is billybob@yourname.com

inbox-path = {mail.megamailservers.com/user=billybob.yourname.com}inbox

 

4. Make sure the personal-name configuration is set to your "From:" name and the user-domain configuration is set to your email address domain.

 

Example:   If you email address is billybob@yourname.com

personal-name = Billy Bob

user-domain = yourname.com

 

5. The other fields are not necessary. Accept the changes by pressing "Enter" and exit the setup menu by pressing "e".