Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:24:55 -0500 From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pop client Message-ID: <XFMail.951202192454.jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951202030305.309B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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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.)
oh god, yes, i watch some unknown quantity of mail disappear yesterday. arghhhhh.
got that fixed. something hammered my mailbox. inserted 'X-UIDL.....' lines
arghhhh.....
xfmail looks nice....but what kind of editor is this?? i want my vi!
jmb
>
>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
>
>
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