Subject: Re: Can I read POP mail in unix??

From: [email-masked] (Iain Lea)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 13:41:34 +0000

[email-masked] (Min-Hsao Chen) wrote:
: not.  My questions is if there is any way to check a POP mail on a Unix 
: system?  Is there a client for Unix or for openwin or whatever so that I can 
: check my mail when I am away from my PPP account.

ftp://ftp.scn.de/pub/mail/clients/xfmail/

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Lutowski)
Date: 13 Oct 1995 02:25:07 GMT

[email-masked] (Alan Schwartz) wrote:
>Terrance M. Darcey <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>I have a similar need, but would like to have a character-based unix POP client...When I'm on my PC I use Eudora, but sometimes i can only telnet to a unix
>>host...I can't login directly to the POP server from there, but would like
>>to read the mail that is stored on the POP server...No X-windows from my telnet
>>session...
>
>Use archie to find the program 'popclient'
>It will download your mail from the pop server to a local unix account,
>which you can read with /bin/mail, Mail, elm, or whatever.
>

popclient may be downloaded from ftp.mal.com/pub/pop.  Sunsite no
longer carries it.

I installed it recently under Linux and it works great.  Compiled
without any problem.  Is small, (relatively) simple, and effective
at fetching mail from POP3 servers.  Loads the mail into your local
machine's mailbox, and you read it from there using "mail" (or
Pine) just as if it was sent directly to your local machine.
All character-based, no GUIs or anything - it's so simple it doesn't
need them.

IMHO, the Pine people ought to contact the author about embedding
popclient into Pine - stick it under a menu option or something.
It's just what Pine needs (brass statement, since I know nothing
about Pine internals!)

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From: [email-masked] (Juergen Georgi)
Date: 13 Oct 1995 11:19:51 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Terrance M. Darcey) writes:
> [...]
>I would like to have a character-based unix POP client...I can't login to my POP server and would like to read that mail from a unix acct (telnet session) when I'm away from my PC/Eudora setup...It appears that XF-Mail is a X-Windows POP client...
>
>Any help would be appreciated...
>
>Terrance M. Darcey, Ph.D.
>[email-masked]
>

I found this posting in my archives

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Southworth)
Date: 22 Dec 1994 22:29:40 GMT
Organization: CICNet, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc, alt.sources
Subject: simple unix popmail client available

Interested in a simple POP3 client for Unix?  I spent a few minutes
cleaning up the MIT popmail (UCB Mail + POP3) kit and stuck it on
ftp.cic.net:/pub/Software/unix/mail/popmail.shar.gz

Should build on BSD-ish systems without much fuss.

This is a redistribution of the rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/popmail distribution.

All credit goes to the original authors.  (But some of us can't deal
with Athena Imakefiles ;)

Good for testing POP servers.  Also works as a normal Berkeley mail client.

Enjoy.

#!/bin/sh -n
echo "yes this is a source posting"
exit 0

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Schwartz)
Date: 12 Oct 1995 04:17:21 GMT

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From: [email-masked] (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Date: 16 Oct 1995 13:02:55 GMT

(List of newsgroups reduced and followup set)

> All character-based, no GUIs or anything - it's so simple it doesn't

These features are common to all the programs based on the same idea as 
popclient: to separate mail retrieving (handled by popclient or a relative) 
and mail displaying, editing, etc, handled directly from the local mail 
spool by a mailer like exmh, elm, or else. Here is the (complete?) list of 
"batch" POP clients on Unix:

"popclient" <ftp://ftp.mal.com/pub/pop> but Archie will find many places

"popc" <ftp://ftp.imag.fr/pub/Linux/net>

"popmail" <ftp://ftp.cic.net/pub/Software/unix/mail>

and the one I prefer :-)

"gwpop" <ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/Network/gwpop>

What are the differences? Well, if someone could test them all and post the
results, it would be great...

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Hannon)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:10:48 GMT

Terrance M. Darcey ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Iain Lea ([email-masked]) wrote:
: : [email-masked] (Min-Hsao Chen) wrote:
: : : not.  My questions is if there is any way to check a POP mail on a Unix 
: : : system?  Is there a client for Unix or for openwin or whatever so that I can 
: : : check my mail when I am away from my PPP account.

: : ftp://ftp.scn.de/pub/mail/clients/xfmail/

: I would like to have a character-based unix POP client...I can't login to my POP server and would like to read that mail from a unix acct (telnet session) when I'm away from my PC/Eudora setup...It appears that XF-Mail is a X-Windows POP client...

What is wrong with pine/mail/mailx/elm/any other text based unix mail program that one
cares to name?

/mark

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From: [email-masked] (Curt Sampson)
Date: 13 Oct 1995 12:22:42 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,

>It's just what Pine needs (brass statement, since I know nothing

Why, when Pine can already retrieve POP3 mail directly?

cjs
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