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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: Mail weirdness on NetBSD 1.0 Message-ID: <D1r8F2.1Kz@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (Darin Wayrynen) Organization: the Briney (notso) Deep Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 01:35:26 GMT References: <D1p5pz.J3v@world.std.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2.1 [BP] PL2.1] Lines: 18 Robert O Landry (umar@world.std.com) wrote: : OK... so I got NetBSD to run on my 386 and I got it to SLIP... now I find : that I can send mail but not receive it. That is, I can use the mail : command to send somebody a message, but his replies never reach me. : I can get my mail from the same SLIP account from a machine at work : running Windoze. I wonder what I'm doing wrong. Your windows mail program most likely uses a different protocol to pick up your mail from your slip-account provider. This protocol is called POP3, or Post Office Protocol, version 3. I don't know of any UNIX e-mail clients that use POP (can anybody else help here?). I'm working on a simple program that will unload a remote POP3 mailbox into your local sendmail (or other SMTP mail server); I can put you on the beta list if you like. The program is called 'cliffy', for you "Cheers" fans out there. Wes Peters