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From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: me again. mail question
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On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jason Parsons wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to make the local mail directory a link to my popmail 
> > account?  I would like to be able to run mail stuff locally and get my 
> > mail on my own system.  I am connecting via ppp.  Please assume that I am 
> > stupid and tell me exactly what I can do.  Thanks again for all your help.
> 
> Sounds like you need 'popclient'.  Popclient will pull your mail through
> POP and put them into a mail folder.  I think the port-ed version (2.21)
> is broken and will eat all your mail, so you have to put it into another
> folder.  But I think that's what you want.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
>

I have been using popclient-3.0b6 for quite some time now with no 
problems.  As far as I can remember it compiled with no problems. 

Cheers,
Carey

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