From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 5:31:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679A437B42C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 05:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from govital.net ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA77450; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:22:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@govital.net) Message-ID: <39D3393A.20E089E7@govital.net> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:27:38 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Raistrick Cc: david@www3.pacific-pages.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help using cucipop - newbie References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Raistrick wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, David Banning wrote: > > > I am used to using a pop server like popclient > > where I can put my mail server name, password, and > > mail login on the command line. How do you > > You need a pop3 /client/ not a server. > > > execute cucipop? How do you say "go get my mail now? - > > and get it from such-and such mail server?" > > cucipop is a pop3 /daemon/ (server). It lets clients talk to it and > retrieve mail, it does not talk to another daemon to retrieve mail. > > > I'm having a problem with fetchmail right now with > > Heh. Welcome to the club...What exactly is the problem you are having > with fetchmail? > > later...david (any other actual pop3 clients other then fetchmail? I've > yet to find anything...and none of the mail clients have a builtin pop3 > client that is worth a damn either....hmm.) > > -- > David Raistrick Digital Wireless Communications > davidr@dwcinet.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message <<>> you can find it, (used to be in the ports collection, release 2.2.2 ~ 3.1, should be on said cd's), there's a simple little utility called 'popclient'. You will not find it from running /stand/sysinstall, but you will find it if you install the ports collection off of one of these older cd's. It's a relatively small program, and knock-on-wood has yet yo fail me. I use it every four minutes on a cron job to copy our olde ISP-based mail account to a local mail account within our intranet... works great. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message