From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 11:58:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from l1.ds.net (l1.ds.net [207.239.204.197]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80F33DC8 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p65.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.65]) by l1.ds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03522; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:57:17 -0500 Message-ID: <38A469B0.85B49683@ds.net> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:57:36 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pop calls from script References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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