From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 17:28:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA29519 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:28:43 -0800 Received: from netcom.netcom.com (root@netcom.netcom.com [192.100.81.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA29513 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:28:41 -0800 Received: by netcom.netcom.com (8.6.10/Netcom) id RAA28901; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:20:55 -0800 From: madison@netcom.com (Ben Madison) Message-Id: <199503130120.RAA28901@netcom.netcom.com> Subject: Re: POP clients... how to fetch my mail? To: ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:20:54 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503121327.OAA10829@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> from "Andreas Schulz" at Mar 12, 95 02:27:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1163 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > [Re: POP clients...] > > No experience with that :-). So i only can tell you, look at the pine > package under ports. I think i have seen something like pop in that, > but i don't know if you can configure it to read mail via pop. > If it works tell us about it, the question is asked often enough :-). Well, here's a summary of what I've discovered so far... pine does support remote mail, but using a different mechanism than POP. POP itself is defined in a couple of RFCs (POP2 in RFC937, POP3 in RFC1225). Thanks to everyone who responded, I've discovered several POP clients. I ended up installing "popclient", a program written at Viginia Tech. It's included in the Linux Slackware distribution, and archie should find it for you. I found it at: ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu:/mirrors/Linux/slackware_source/n/tcpip/popclient-2.21.tar.gz It supports POP[23] and lets me read the received mail with mail/elm, so I'm happy. Someone else sent me a perl POP client, which was pretty spiffy. I'd like to play with it, but it uses the chat2.pl library, which I can't seem to find... I'll have to look into that, next. Thanks again for the leads... jbm