[Alpine-info] Dumb beginner's question

[Geoff Shang]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Dan wrote:


> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Matt Ackeret wrote:

>

>> maybe alpine already does what you want if you use POP (eww)..

>

> Being stuck with POP3, I can confirm that Alpine downloads the full

> messages, not just the headers, from the outset.  But this makes for

> _slow_ mailbox opening.


Maybe then you might want to use fetchmail to download messages via POP3 
and Alpine can read it from the local inbox.

I used to do this and it worked very well for a  long time.

Geoff.