From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 6: 5:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59CA37B647 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:05:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21729 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:05:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12375 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:02:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZC4CF00.O1C; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:05:03 -0400 Message-ID: <39994094.B719C4F0@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:07:32 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: bsd Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org> <399868BF.EEA39378@www3.pacific-pages.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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