From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 21:46:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AB0737B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27496 invoked by uid 100); 5 Oct 2000 04:46:50 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14812.1978.398200.145662@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:46:50 -0500 (CDT) To: Nathan Vidican Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: popclient (used to be in /usr/ports/mail/popclient.. where is it now?) In-Reply-To: <2323998@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Vidican writes: > I need a simple utility that can be run from a cron task to retrieve > email from a POP3 account. I used to utilize a utility called > 'popclient' to do so, the syntax was something similar to below: > > popclient -u username -p password -o /var/mail/localuser > pop3.server.domain > > It was great, because we essentially forwarded accounts to an internal > email address. From a recent thread I grapped the URL to download what > someone said was 'popclient', but it was didfferent; it required user > interaction. It was 'popit.c', not the popclient I was looking for. I > know that the popclient program I am looking for is in the FreeBSD < 3.1 > ports collection, but I no longer have any machines with the < > 4.1-STABLE installed, if anyone could email me a tarball of > /usr/ports/mail/popclient if they have it I would be greatful. Popclient is dead. All hail fetchmail. From the fetchmail DESCR file: Fetchmail is the lineal descendant of and replacement for the old popclient program. You should already have a copy of /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail.