From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 22:21:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA10645 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 22:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (root@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10639 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 22:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (flaq@ns1.synwork.com [204.120.255.17]) by synwork.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA06870; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:49:31 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:49:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike To: Ken Marsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Popper docs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~