From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 16:18:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA20732 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 16:18:02 -0800 Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA20701 ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 16:17:50 -0800 Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA00547; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:17:38 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:17:38 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Reply-To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: FreeBSD Postmaster From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: Subject: Re: pop client Cc: , "Jonathan M. Bresler" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat Dec 2 08:06:49 1995 Doug White wrote: >>On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > >> which is the pop client mail program of choice ?? >> does pine, elm do pop ?? > >Pine can't handle POP. I use 'popclient', a program that will pull off >POP mail and put it into a folder. I believe it's in the ports >distribution as popclient-2.21. Not sure though. (if you DO use this, >save the mail as a folder; if you try to make it mail it back to you (the >default), that support is broke and it will eat the mail. :( Otherwise >works great.) > >Pine's remote folder support uses "imap" which may not be supported on >all systems. imap also doesn't work very well on very busy systems. > >I don't use elm so I can't comment on that. > >Hope this helps. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >