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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.cais.net!news.cais.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting mail from my ISP Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 06:55:32 -0700 Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 10 Message-ID: <31B834D4.3DCA@www.play-hookey.com> References: <nickliuDsL8F7.JwJ@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.157.126.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Nick Liu wrote: > One thing though, I don't know how to configure the mail reader to get > mail from my ISP (if there is a way). Can someone give me a hint? Try popclient, which is available as a package in 2.1R distribution. That's what I use and it works fine. I have set it up via a shell script which is invoked regularly by cron, but there's no reason you can't use it directly if you prefer. Ken