From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 04:54:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA09477 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 04:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA09466 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 04:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) id OAA26460; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:52:59 +0300 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:52:58 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Ken Marsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Popper docs? In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > 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? No! popper is the pop server (kind of software your ISP is probably using to let YOU retrieve your mail...) > > 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! You can try popclient (it's in the ports). I myself use Netscape when I need pop mail (which I seldom do...). If you have netscape (V2.0 and above) you can use it. You set the pop server address under "Mail and News Preferences". > > Ken Marsh > > Nadav