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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mail problems
Date: 8 Jan 1997 16:42:27 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <5auac8$8n2@psycfrnd.interaccess.com>,
Kent L Squires <ksquires@psycfrnd.interaccess.com> wrote:
> /var/spool/mail/$USER. How can I get 'elm' to read the mailbox?
Recompile Elm is a good way. Using the Elm port is a better way. But...
> Also, how can I get my FreeBSD system to pull mail off my internet account?
...using POP within Mutt is an even better one:
<URL:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt/>
There is also a port of Mutt in soon-to-be 2.2 and in 3.0-CURRENT.
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