Subject: Receiving mails

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 96 15:01:02 PDT

I am new under Linux and want to use pine to send and receive
messages. But so far I am only able to send them.

I am not connected to any LAN. I use TCP/IP with my modem and
am connected to my internet provider via SLIP. How can I get
the mails which arrived at my provider to my local machine?

Perhaps somebody of you is able to help me.

Thank you.      Frank

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Egil Kvaleberg)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 15:33:14 GMT

> the mails which arrived at my provider to my local machine?

It depends. But assuming the standard ISP situation, you'll probably
have to use the POP-3 protocol to retrieve mail. This is accomplished by
the popclient program, e.g:

    popclient -3 -v mail.my_isp.de -u my_username -p my_password \
	      -o /usr/spool/mail/my_localname 

egil

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