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Article: 12442 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: John Santos <john.santos@post.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ? Script for retrieving from POP3 server
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In article <3B0086D3.1E8D6F90@value.net>, msapiro@value.net says...
> "Matthew H. Gerlach" wrote:
> >
> > I use pine 4.1, and it has no problem accessing remote POP servers.
>
> I have no problem accessing the remote server with pine, but what I want
> to do is effectively copy the remote mailbox to a local file, and I
> don't know how to do this with pine other than "one message at a time"
> and without pine altering the headers (in particular, pine seems to
> change the initial From line, replacing the sender's address with mine).
>
> > There is also a tool called "fetchmail"
>
> Thanks for the pointer to fetchmail. It seems that it would be ideal,
> but it is not installed on my local server.
At my company, we used to use Kermit to connect to the SMTP server and
send mail, so talking to the POP3 server should be possible. I don't
have any special hints to offer except that it would probably be
necessary to turn off telnet option negotiations ("set telnet wait off"
in Kermit, IIRC), and to careful check for errors after each and every
command in your Kermit script and have it do something reasonable.
--
John Santos