From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 9 19:10:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA15539 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA15534 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA26750; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:08:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: Bob Boone cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bboone@virtualbob.com Subject: Re: CVS and Popper.... In-Reply-To: <199710091458.KAA22108@helios.whro.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Bob Boone wrote: > I want to update from 2.2 release (july) to -stable, and to add qpop so I > can get my mail out of the server more easily, SYSINSTALL has lots of ports > -- but not the qpop 1.2.4 listed in the text of the website, nor Apache > 1.2.4, nor any convenient way to get the CVS "port". When I tried to access > the CVS port thru the hyperlink in the 16.3.2.2 Installation text (handbook) > I got DNS or directory errors. > > Is this a temporary thing related to the code freeze, some other magic, or > (dare I say) operator error ???? > > > > > > > Bob > There's popclient in the ports collection, but also fetchmail, which is supposed to be better. For a pop server there's popper. I've got both popclient and popper installed and they both work. popper installs as qpopper or qpop and is probably what you're talking about. Annelise