Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:57:36 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> To: Alexey Koptsevich <ak@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pop calls from script Message-ID: <38A469B0.85B49683@ds.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002111525100.63224-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
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Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I would appreciate any help on the subject. > > I would like to find any non-GUI application that can make the > pop-exchange automatically. Pine? Elm? Mutt? All are available in the ports collection. I don't know about the rest, but Pine can certainly pull messages from a POP server. > I.e., it should login to the POP-server > (I think, POP fits this purpose better than SMTP), download the mail that > came and upload the mail that waits for sending at the moment. POP is a one way street - from them (Your ISP's mail server) to you. POP does not send mail, that's why we have 'sendmail'. > I found > only p5-Mail-POP3Client-1.15 in the ports. That's a Perl module - you need to write a script which includes this module for it to be of any benefit to you. Writing the script isn't difficult - as a matter of fact I used this when I was first learning Perl some time ago. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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