[Macpartners] Email on OS X Panther and .mac

[Albert Willis]

On Dec 3, 2003, at 6:36 PM, Melvin Pk Soh wrote:

> I've been trying to move my emails from the MIT server to my .mac 
> account.
>
> po14.mit.edu
> outoing.mit.edu
>
> whenever i enter these settings into imail or the .mac account, they do
> not seem to be able to connect to MIT's mail servers.

Because .Mac doesn't use Kerberos, it can't get mail from the MIT mail 
servers using POP. Unless Apple adds Kerberos authentication, you can't 
use .Mac to access the MIT servers.

You could have your mail forwarded to your .Mac address; see 
http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/email/forward.html for more information.

>
> Please help. You guys have been very very helpful. Thanks
>
> Melvin Soh
>
> P.S. also is there anyway to have pine run on my powerbook to connnect 
> to
> .mac?

The short answer is that, yes, it's possible to run Pine on your 
PowerBook.
The longer answer is that, unless you have a good reason and you know 
what you're doing, you should probably use Eudora, which Information 
Systems provides a great deal of support for. See 
http://itinfo.mit.edu/product?vid=545. Mac OS X comes with Mail, which 
isn't supported by Information Systems, but is being used by lots of 
people at MIT.

Having said that, if you still wish to use Pine, I would suggest doing 
a google on 'Pine Mac OS X' to get a list of websites that can assist 
you in either building Pine from the source code or downloading 
binaries for Mac OS X. Keep in mind that if you wish to use Pine at 
MIT, you'll need to use IMAP or a version of Pine that supports 
Kerberos if you're going to use POP.

   -- Al