Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:49:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike <flaq@synwork.com> To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Popper docs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960810234858.6866A-100000@synwork.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960810202644.371A-100000@ken.u.washington.edu>
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On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:
> I have a POP3 server at my isp, and an account set up on it.
>
> I also made the popper port without difficulty.
>
> However, there is no documentation with popper other than the man page,
> which says:
>
> (The official port number
> specified in RFC 1081 for POP version 3 is port 110. How-
> ever, some POP3 clients attempt to contact the server at
> port 109, the POP version 2 port. Unless you are running
> both POP2 and POP3 servers, you can simply define both
> ports for use by the POP3 server. This is explained in
> the installation instructions later on.)
>
> I want to know how much later these installation instructions will be
> coming along, because they are not on the manpage, nor anywhere that I can
> find them.
>
> I have all of my outgoing mail going into /var/spool/mqueue, and my
> sendmail flags are ``-bd -odq'', so I can send my mail in one batch with
> ``sendmail -q''. Now I just need to get popper to nab my mail from my POP3
> account and drop it into /usr/home/mydir. Is this not what popper does?
>
You want the port of either popclient or pine to retrieve mail.
Mike
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