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Date:      Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:49:31 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike <flaq@synwork.com>
To:        Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Popper docs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960810234858.6866A-100000@synwork.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960810202644.371A-100000@ken.u.washington.edu>

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On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:

> I have a POP3 server at my isp, and an account set up on it.
> 
> I also made the popper port without difficulty.
> 
> However, there is no documentation with popper other than the man page,
> which says:
> 
> 	(The official port number
>        specified in RFC 1081 for POP version 3 is port 110.  How-
>        ever,  some  POP3 clients attempt to contact the server at
>        port 109, the POP version 2 port.  Unless you are  running
>        both  POP2  and  POP3  servers, you can simply define both
>        ports for use by the POP3 server.  This  is  explained  in
>        the  installation instructions later on.)
> 
> I want to know how much later these installation instructions will be
> coming along, because they are not on the manpage, nor anywhere that I can
> find them.
> 
> I have all of my outgoing mail going into /var/spool/mqueue, and my
> sendmail flags are ``-bd -odq'', so I can send my mail in one batch with
> ``sendmail -q''. Now I just need to get popper to nab my mail from my POP3
> account and drop it into /usr/home/mydir. Is this not what popper does?
> 

You want the port of either popclient or pine to retrieve mail.

Mike

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