From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 21:35:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id VAA15363 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15358 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA07425; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:35:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:35:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: shegonee@ix.netcom.com cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: popclient In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961204095359.006722f4@popd.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Dec 1996 shegonee@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I have installed popclient on my machine but without the -o option > it can't seem to find a file to deposite mail into. The man pages > for mail seems to indicate that the file popclient uses is > /arspool/mail/$USERNAME. However, I cant verify this and I can't find any > documentation on how to set up user mail accounts. > Where can I get documentation on this? Be careful!! the 2.2 popclient will eat your mail if you run it with the default options. I believe it has been surpassed by 'fetchmail' which is in the ports tree. 'man popclient' should give additional information. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major