From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 10:45:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11210 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer07.u.washington.edu (durang@homer07.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11202 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by homer07.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.08/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA21292; Wed, 21 Aug 96 10:45:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:45:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh 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 Your ISP has to have POP capabilities, then you need a pop client. This is as far as I got, because the pop client comes with very poor documentation, and the ISP's docs are to access the POP server in a regular way, not using POP to nab the mail a read it locally, but to merely access the mail and read it remotely. It's quite frustrating, I have gotten such a minute amount of support that I've put my POP aspirations on ice for the moment. Let me know if you figure it out! I have managed to get my local copy of pine to send outgoing messages to a queue, which then go to the ISP when I hook up, but even that works only sporadically, and like POP, sendmail is also poorly documented (Unless you buy a book, which is certain to be over 2 inches thick.) Ken 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. > > Jason > >