Have you tried setting pine up to get your mail directly via pop?
	I dont know how suited it is for dial up pop access but I know
	it works (I used pine to test out a pop server once :)

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On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Albert Carter wrote:

> Hey there all,
> 
>   I just wanted to do a little follow up on the whole mail thing.
> Apparently pine can send mail without using sendmail.  All you need to do
> is configure it so it sends all your send mail to you ISP's SMTP server.
> This works fine.  Now all I've gotta do is figure out POPclient and I
> should be all set without needing to screw around with sendmail, unless you
> do need to set up sendmail so it get's the mail from where ever POPclient
> dumps it to your INBOX so you can read it with pine.  I'm kind of hoping
> that there is a way of setting up POPclient so it sends your mail directly
> to your pine INBOX though.
> 
> Albert
> 
>