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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: Mike <flaq@synwork.com>
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Subject: Re: Popper docs?
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On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Mike wrote:

> > 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.

is popper not a pop client?

I have pine. I set up pine per the instructions supplied from the
University of Washington, and the result was two INBOX's, each a mirror of
the other, and neither of them operative when I was not connected via PPP.

This is not what I want. I want software that will use POP or IMAP to grab
my mail!

Ken Marsh