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Date:      14 Aug 2000 19:33:59 -0400
From:      Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check
Message-ID:  <878ztz4dug.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>
In-Reply-To: David Banning's message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:46:39 -0400"
References:  <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org> <399868BF.EEA39378@www3.pacific-pages.com>

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David Banning <David@www3.pacific-pages.com> writes:

> > Well, if you are using a dialup connection, you can just run fetchmail
> > as part of a start PPP script.
> My problem is that there seems to be a time limit on the period of
> time the mail server will allow sending after the last fetchmail

You can run fetchmail as a daemon so that it polls the server every
10, 5, or 3 minutes no matter what.  This is not very kind on the mail
server, but they are asking for it by endorsing such policy. ;^)
> 
> Is there any advantage to fetchmail over popclient?

popclient doesn't even seems to be in the ports...  Can't tell you
much, then, other than saying that fetchmail has been around for a
long time.
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.


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