Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:00:15 -240 From: "Pavlov's Cat" <Pavlov's.Cat> To: questions@FreeBSD.org, duane@dtq.ptw.com Subject: Re: pop3 Message-ID: <m0rfVBX-00004VC@infi.net>
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Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> said: > > 2. My service provider has pop3 running on his machine and I don't have > > a clue as to how to grab the mail from him via a ppp connect. If > > this is generally a bad idea I would appreciate the info > > Not necessary a bad idea :-). But, i don't know if there is a good > unix solution to get your mail with pop. You can look at the pine port, > this has something with pop in it. > Another alternative that I beat into submission was a program called "popclient" (or some such...). Basically it periodically (I used cron) or on-demand contacts a POP-3 server, authenticates the user info, pulls all spooled mail for the user, and splices the result onto the end of /var/mail/*user*. Then Pine, Elm, Mail, whatever, can access the messages in whatever environment the user finds most suitable. I can't remember where I found it, exactly, and archie wasn't much help; it gave me a bunch of false starts when I queried on "popclient". But, I persevered and found it. I have subsequently left the job where I worked this project, but let me know if you can't find this package; I can poke around at home and see where I saved the source deck I stashed. (The environment I developed this solution for was to permit *nix hosts to suck mail that had been sent/queued to NetWare (using SMTP!?!) to their local hosts using POP-3. Don't even ask! %-) Luck... -- ...sjs... Steve Sims SimsS@Infi.Net Virginia Beach, VA Still working on a witty .signature...
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