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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dciteleport.com!usenet.logical.net!node2.frontiernet.net!not-for-mail From: dsf@node6.frontiernet.net (Dan Foster) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: email clients... Date: 27 Dec 1996 09:12:03 -0500 Organization: Frontier Internet, A reliable part of your life Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5a0lfj$9j2@node6.frontiernet.net> References: <32C321D3.1DFF@javanet.com> <5a0kmi$9bc@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: node6.frontiernet.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33353 In article <5a0kmi$9bc@uuneo.neosoft.com>, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: >In article <32C321D3.1DFF@javanet.com>, > John Szumowski <harpo@javanet.com> writes: >You may have a situation similar to mine. My ISP uses both SMTP and POP. >Pine will use SMTP to *send* mail, but it doesn't know anything about POP >yet (same with a number of other mail packages). BTW: If Neosoft (*excellent* ISP, imho...one of the best in the nation) supports IMAP, I would suggest running with IMAP. This is what POP should have had been in the first place. There are a bunch of IMAP clients out now, and a well connected source suggests that Netscape v4 has support for it. http://www.imap.org/products/client.html for a list of clients available. Of course... if Neosoft doesn't support IMAP, then that is a moot point. :) >What I've done is setup popclient as a cron job to periodically poll the >server for new incoming mail and stuff it into /var/mail/$LOGNAME. Works >fine. This is also a great way to "keep alive" a connection! :-) Or, if >you've setup ppp on demand (with proper timeout setting), you can have >your system check for new mail at any time (whether you're already >connected or not). Connect, login, grab whatever's waiting, then have the >ppp timeout disconnect you (a short timeout works best in this case, of >course -- say, a couple of minutes). If Neosoft has a recent version of sendmail, then that supports the ETRN SMTP command which, basically tells the mail server to send you all mail it's queued for you. Write a few liner expect script that telnets to the mail server's SMTP port (port 25) and issue a ETRN command? Note: I'm not sure if the ETRN command requires other parameters like a static hostname, etc. Ask Neosoft on this point, or see any replies in this group to this post? -Dan Foster Internet: dsf@frontiernet.net