Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:46:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: popclient (used to be in /usr/ports/mail/popclient.. where is it now?) Message-ID: <14812.1978.398200.145662@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <2323998@toto.iv>
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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. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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