From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 04:10:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA14544 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 04:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn022-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.23]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA14527 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 04:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id HAA03247; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:07:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:07:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Fred Adorno , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail 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 Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Fred Adorno wrote: > > > I can now access my isp through my ppp connection. I can even send mail > > out, but how do I get my mail out from my isp? > > You may be interested in the 'popclient' program, which will pull your > POP mail off of your ISP and put it into a mail folder of your choice. > Note that you don't want popclient to put it in your inbox or it won't > make it. I have been using popclient for months now without a problem. By default it puts incoming mail in the system mail folder, same as sendmail. I can then read mail using mail, pine, elm or anything else I want. > Or you could use Pine and IMAP if your ISP supports it. See Pine Help > for more info on that. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House.