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From: blewis@oddity.vet.purdue.edu (Benjamin Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Mail weirdness on NetBSD 1.0
Date: 02 Jan 1995 08:54:14 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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In-reply-to: wes@indirect.com's message of Mon, 2 Jan 1995 01:35:26 GMT
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>>>>> "Wes" == Barnacle Wes <wes@indirect.com> writes:
Wes> Your windows mail program most likely uses a different
Wes> protocol to pick up your mail from your slip-account
Wes> provider. This protocol is called POP3, or Post Office
Wes> Protocol, version 3. I don't know of any UNIX e-mail clients
Wes> that use POP (can anybody else help here?). I'm working on a
Wes> simple program that will unload a remote POP3 mailbox into
Wes> your local sendmail (or other SMTP mail server); I can put
Wes> you on the beta list if you like. The program is called
Wes> 'cliffy', for you "Cheers" fans out there.
The "mh" suite of programs can pick up mail using POP3 (or 2). There is
a port somewhere on ftp.freebsd.org that works on FreeBSD and NetBSD (I
use it on NetBSD 1.0). I had a tough time setting it up, and had to
resort to reading the source to figure out a couple of things, and it is
incredible over-kill for the limited uses I put it to.
I am happy to hear that you are developing a program to do this.
-Ben
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Benjamin Lewis (blewis@vet.vet.purdue.edu)