From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 17 08:05:33 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA13434 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 08:05:33 -0800 Received: from infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA13428 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 08:05:31 -0800 Received: from h-pink.richmond.infi.net by infi.net with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #13) id m0rfVBX-00004VC; Fri, 17 Feb 95 11:05 EST Message-Id: From: "Pavlov's Cat" Organization: Organized? Me? Hah! To: questions@FreeBSD.org, duane@dtq.ptw.com Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:00:15 -240 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: pop3 Reply-to: SimsS@infi.net Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andreas Schulz said: > > 2. My service provider has pop3 running on his machine and I don't have > > a clue as to how to grab the mail from him via a ppp connect. If > > this is generally a bad idea I would appreciate the info > > Not necessary a bad idea :-). But, i don't know if there is a good > unix solution to get your mail with pop. You can look at the pine port, > this has something with pop in it. > Another alternative that I beat into submission was a program called "popclient" (or some such...). Basically it periodically (I used cron) or on-demand contacts a POP-3 server, authenticates the user info, pulls all spooled mail for the user, and splices the result onto the end of /var/mail/*user*. Then Pine, Elm, Mail, whatever, can access the messages in whatever environment the user finds most suitable. I can't remember where I found it, exactly, and archie wasn't much help; it gave me a bunch of false starts when I queried on "popclient". But, I persevered and found it. I have subsequently left the job where I worked this project, but let me know if you can't find this package; I can poke around at home and see where I saved the source deck I stashed. (The environment I developed this solution for was to permit *nix hosts to suck mail that had been sent/queued to NetWare (using SMTP!?!) to their local hosts using POP-3. Don't even ask! %-) Luck... -- ...sjs... Steve Sims SimsS@Infi.Net Virginia Beach, VA Still working on a witty .signature...