Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:20:54 -0800 (PST) From: madison@netcom.com (Ben Madison) To: ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: POP clients... how to fetch my mail? Message-ID: <199503130120.RAA28901@netcom.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <199503121327.OAA10829@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> from "Andreas Schulz" at Mar 12, 95 02:27:08 pm
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> > [Re: POP clients...] > > No experience with that :-). So i only can tell you, look at the pine > package under ports. I think i have seen something like pop in that, > but i don't know if you can configure it to read mail via pop. > If it works tell us about it, the question is asked often enough :-). Well, here's a summary of what I've discovered so far... pine does support remote mail, but using a different mechanism than POP. POP itself is defined in a couple of RFCs (POP2 in RFC937, POP3 in RFC1225). Thanks to everyone who responded, I've discovered several POP clients. I ended up installing "popclient", a program written at Viginia Tech. It's included in the Linux Slackware distribution, and archie should find it for you. I found it at: ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu:/mirrors/Linux/slackware_source/n/tcpip/popclient-2.21.tar.gz It supports POP[23] and lets me read the received mail with mail/elm, so I'm happy. Someone else sent me a perl POP client, which was pretty spiffy. I'd like to play with it, but it uses the chat2.pl library, which I can't seem to find... I'll have to look into that, next. Thanks again for the leads... jbm
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