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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Subject: Re: POP client for NetBSD.
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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 06:21:04 GMT
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In <CJ4tBt.G9u@news.chalmers.se> dana@me.chalmers.se (Dan Andersson) writes:

>I'm setting up a NetBSD-0.9 box, but with no internet plug on it.
>I've been looking for a pop-mail CLIENT ! to run in the box. All I
>find is a lot of nice servers but no unix-client.
>There are some clients for PC's and MAC's around but none for unix...

>Is it really like this or hava I missed any software somewhere? This ought to 
>be a quite common need, there MUST be a lot of boxes around without direct
>internet access.

>So, I'm looking for a pop client where i can time schedule calls to a ( some )
>popmail host(s) to retrieve and deliver mail. All this have to be installed
>and run on a NetBSD or FreeBSD- system.

>Any ideas or hints are welcome.        

I may be oversimplifying your problem, but have you tried mh?  It can
be found at most NetBSD FTP sites in the "othersrc" dir.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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