Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:07:32 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: bsd <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check Message-ID: <39994094.B719C4F0@mitre.org> References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org> <399868BF.EEA39378@www3.pacific-pages.com>
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David Banning wrote: > > > > Another trick might be to alias mutt to fetchmail &; mutt. This won't > > help you if you have scripts running that invoke mail or sendmail > > directly, but will probably be sufficent for home dailup use. > > Is there any advantage to fetchmail over popclient? Fetchmail has more features, and is maintained a little better. Fetchmail also supports a nifty daemon mode where it will poll the mailserver every n seconds. If you set this to just a little bit less than the timeout of your SMTP server you won't have to worry about timing out. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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