Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 15:34:41 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Ian Wynne <ianw@ee.usyd.edu.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automating mail download Message-ID: <199701012234.PAA02150@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <12087.852110615@time.cdrom.com> References: <m0vfM0d-000cUuC@cassius.ee.usyd.EDU.AU> <12087.852110615@time.cdrom.com>
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Ian Wynne queried:
% I'm using FreeBSD 2.1.5R. I connect to the internet using user land
% ppp. I've just setup qmail on my machine. Now I would like to
% automatically download my mail from the solaris 2.5 machine I dial up.
% The solaris machine is using smail and I don't have root privilege's
% on it.
Jordan K. Hubbard replied:
> What you want is something like `popper' (in fact, maybe exactly that)
> on the Solaris box which allows a mail client like MH or ELM running
> on the FreeBSD box to suck mail off it.
If you prefer to use a local mail agent on your freebsd system, you
can get 'popclient' to download the mail from the server to your
normal system mailbox.
> I'm not up on all the vagaries of compiling popper for Solaris, but
> that's the basic idea you want to chase. Most of the FreeBSD ported
> mailers already support POP transfers, now you just need to make your
> Solaris box play ball.
If the solaris box is at an ISP, they most certainly already have
a POP server installed. You can find out quickly with:
$ telnet {solaris box here} 110
If you get connected and see something like:
QPOP (version 2.2-b7) at solaris.box.com starting.
<6376.852156497@solaris.box.com>
You're ready to roll. Just type QUIT<CR> to exit from the pop server.
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