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From: se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Mail weirdness on NetBSD 1.0
Date: 2 Jan 1995 09:23:05 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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References: <D1p5pz.J3v@world.std.com> <D1r8F2.1Kz@indirect.com>
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In article <D1r8F2.1Kz@indirect.com>, wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) writes:
|> Robert O Landry (umar@world.std.com) wrote:
|> : OK... so I got NetBSD to run on my 386 and I got it to SLIP... now I find 
|> : that I can send mail but not receive it.  That is, I can use the mail 
|> : command to send somebody a message, but his replies never reach me.
|> 
|> : I can get my mail from the same SLIP account from a machine at work 
|> : running Windoze.  I wonder what I'm doing wrong.
|> 
|> Your windows mail program most likely uses a different protocol to pick
|> up your mail from your slip-account provider.  This protocol is called
|> POP3, or Post Office Protocol, version 3.  I don't know of any UNIX
|> e-mail clients that use POP (can anybody else help here?).  I'm working
|> on a simple program that will unload a remote POP3 mailbox into your
|> local sendmail (or other SMTP mail server); I can put you on the beta
|> list if you like.  The program is called 'cliffy', for you "Cheers"
|> fans out there.

'Mush' can do POP2/3, and I've got it running on my box
(though I don't use POP myself). I gathered all reasonable
patches and improvements after the 7.2.5 release, to have
the best mush ever made :). (Compiled under FreeBSD-2.0,
but guess it compiles under NetBSD, too.)

Didn't get around making a 'port' out of it though ...

STefan
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