From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 10:55:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA21035 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21025 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00762; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:54:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jason Parsons cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: me again. mail question 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 Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jason Parsons wrote: > Is there any way to make the local mail directory a link to my popmail > account? I would like to be able to run mail stuff locally and get my > mail on my own system. I am connecting via ppp. Please assume that I am > stupid and tell me exactly what I can do. Thanks again for all your help. Sounds like you need 'popclient'. Popclient will pull your mail through POP and put them into a mail folder. I think the port-ed version (2.21) is broken and will eat all your mail, so you have to put it into another folder. But I think that's what you want. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major