From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 17 8: 2:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF2814A15 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:02:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id IAA79490; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:02:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:02:02 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199911171602.IAA79490@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: youlgok@attglobal.net Subject: Re: Q: POP client Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <382AD577.A8AF66AB@attglobal.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:40:56 -0500 >From: youlgok@attglobal.net >Reply-To: youlgok@attglobal.net >Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [Copying -newbies on my reply manually, despite the explicit request (in the Reply-To:) to send the reply *only* to youlgok@attglobal.net -- dhw] >Please recommend me a good POP client except Netscape Messenger. Given that this is a FreeBSD-oriented list, I'd recommend fetchmail. Please bear in mind, though, that people often (ab)use POP to handle mail intended for multiple recipients from a given mailbox, and such an exercise is doomed to merely differing degrees of failure: POP wasn't designed to do that, and there exist recipient address combinations where it cannot work properly. And since the POP server doesn't choose the recipient addresses (the message originator does), the best the administrator of the POP server can do is mitigate the failure. Cheers, david (only barely avoiding going into rant mode re: POP) -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message