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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: email clients...
Date: 27 Dec 1996 20:07:28 GMT
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John Szumowski <harpo@javanet.com> wrote:

> Are there any email clients available for textmode? I have netscape

elm, mutt, etc.

> working just fine in X (although i'm using 95 now...) with a smtp
> server. I tried pine, but i could never get it to connect, so i zapped
> it.

Ah, you need a _POP3_ client.  Ok, there's popclient in the ports.  It
simply pulls the mail from the popserver, and drops it into the local
mailbox, where you can use any mail reader you prefer.

I've been told that mutt can also do POP3 directly.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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