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Date:      Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:17:38 -0500
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Subject:   Re: pop client
Message-ID:  <XFMail.951202191736.jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951202030305.309B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>

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On Sat Dec  2 08:06:49 1995 Doug White wrote:
>>On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
>
>> which is the pop client mail program of choice ??
>> does pine, elm do pop ??
>
>Pine can't handle POP.  I use 'popclient', a program that will pull off
>POP mail and put it into a folder.  I believe it's in the ports
>distribution as popclient-2.21.  Not sure though.  (if you DO use this,
>save the mail as a folder; if you try to make it mail it back to you (the
>default), that support is broke and it will eat the mail. :( Otherwise
>works great.)
>
>Pine's remote folder support uses "imap" which may not be supported on 
>all systems.  imap also doesn't work very well on very busy systems.  
>
>I don't use elm so I can't comment on that.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
>
>




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