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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: All is not well with the MH port.. 
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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In message <199508130202.TAA12027@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>Even with pop, it doesn't look like -rpop works properly; it technically shoul
>d
>authenticate via your .rhosts, but does not.  I have popper built to allow
>such authentication, for what it's worth, but without a working apop or
>rpop it's impossible to have "unattended operation" with inc - something
>that's necessary if you want to use MH+pop with a front-end like mh-e
>or xmh (since there's no opportunity to type a password).

>Any other MH enthusiasts out there who might like to work with me on
>trying to fix this mess? :-)

I'll help where possible. I've already looked quickly at some of the
issues, and it seems that the supplied FreeBSD config file is
non-ideal. We should probably have ``options POPSERVICE='"pop3'"'' in
there also, as you have to delve into /etc/services otherwise...

Gary