Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 16:43:57 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> To: Frank Seltzer <frankd@yoda.fdt.net> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>, FreeBSD Ports <FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mail Message-ID: <32050B8C.309E@ime.net> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960804115807.22171F-100000@Kryten.nina.com>
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Frank Seltzer wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > I need to do something about getting my mail via pop, and I noticed that > > there's two pop ports in ports/mail, popclient and popper. Could I get a > > recommendation on this, I don't want to have to become a mail expert to > > get my mail from the university to my home machine. > > > > I use popclient here with no problems. The command line looks something > like this: > > popclient <your.mail.server> > > It will prompt you for your password, query the mail server and drop all > your mail in your system mail folder. You can also run it from cron but > you must use -p <password> which will show up in a ps listing. You might > not want to do this for security reasons. I do it on my home machine so I > don't have to worry about someone seeing my password. Hope this helps. > How does outgoing mail get addressed, I tried this (not very hard) and my outgoing mail gave my address from my internal net, I need it to match my account with my ISP, As if I had sent it from my ISP. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848
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