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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!rrz.uni-koeln.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news 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 Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3e8glpINN1dbf@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> References: <D1p5pz.J3v@world.std.com> <D1r8F2.1Kz@indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fileserv1.mi.uni-koeln.de 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 -- Stefan Esser Internet: <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706010 Universitaet zu Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 Weyertal 80 50931 Koeln