MJ4H
02-28-2011, 12:45 PM
OK, please help if you can.
The following is what I'm trying to accomplish:
1) background retrieval of email to a folder on my windows 7 machine
2) setting up Alpine to access this email
Off limits:
1) virtual machine solutions
2) install another operating system
Things I've tried and why they failed:
1) cygwin + fetchmail : failed because I neither pine nor alpine are available in cygwin without a lot of work (which I tried and failed), and pc-alpine apparently won't access a folder created inside of cygwin. It's a permissions problem on the surface, but nothing seemed to fix it.
2) mpop.sourceforge.net + pc-alpine: fails because I can't make mpop deliver the mail properly. Permission denied errors everywhere that I can't seem to clear. It can deliver to mbox or maildir format, both of which alpine can access, but I just can't make it work.
Does anyone have any ideas? I've been trying all morning, and I'm about to throw my computer into the toilet.
Oh, just to be clear, I don't want to use alpine to directly access the pop inbox folder, which I know it can do and is easy to set up. It is slower than Christmas. Background retrieval with something like fetchmail or mpop is required.
The following is what I'm trying to accomplish:
1) background retrieval of email to a folder on my windows 7 machine
2) setting up Alpine to access this email
Off limits:
1) virtual machine solutions
2) install another operating system
Things I've tried and why they failed:
1) cygwin + fetchmail : failed because I neither pine nor alpine are available in cygwin without a lot of work (which I tried and failed), and pc-alpine apparently won't access a folder created inside of cygwin. It's a permissions problem on the surface, but nothing seemed to fix it.
2) mpop.sourceforge.net + pc-alpine: fails because I can't make mpop deliver the mail properly. Permission denied errors everywhere that I can't seem to clear. It can deliver to mbox or maildir format, both of which alpine can access, but I just can't make it work.
Does anyone have any ideas? I've been trying all morning, and I'm about to throw my computer into the toilet.
Oh, just to be clear, I don't want to use alpine to directly access the pop inbox folder, which I know it can do and is easy to set up. It is slower than Christmas. Background retrieval with something like fetchmail or mpop is required.