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Descr: Retrieves mail von host via POP2/POP3 and places it into your
NetBSD mail directory (/var/mail/*).
POPClient 2.21 - A POP2/POP3 compliant mail retrieval client.
This is a very handy utility for SLIP (and especially SLiRP) connected
machines. It will go out to your specified POP2/POP3 host machine,
retreive your email, and place it in your NetBSD mail directory
(/var/mail/*). Then you can use your local mail software (elm, pine,
etc.) to read it.
Suggestions:
* Add a cron entry that executes popclient every 5 minutes, for transparent
mail retreival.
* Create a shell script that does the same as above, and add it to your slip
startup script.
* Create an alias such as:
alias pop 'popclient -s -u username -p password remote.host.name ; mail'
Installation:
1. Put popclient anywhere in your path - /usr/local/bin is a good place.
2. Put popclient.1 in /usr/local/man/man1
Compiled on a -current NetBSD machine, but should would with 1.0.
The source can be obtained at:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/sunsite/system/Mail/pop/popclient-2.21.tar.gz
If you want to compile this for yourself, edit config.h and change
MDA_PATH to "/usr/libexec/mail.local"
MDA_ALIAS to "mail.local"
MDA_ARGS to "-f POPmail $u" (the -f part is optional)
Jeff Thieleke
thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu (which is later POPped to my NetBSD machine!)
http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu