Subject: Re: Favourite POP3 client
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/11/2001 19:30:50
In message <5.0.2.1.0.20010411184854.00a8e480@pop.netzero.net>, Steven Grunza w
rites:
>What are some of my options for a POP3 client under NetBSD? I need to
>access two different accounts and am using Netscape for one of them. Are
>there any other POP3 clients that will leave mail on the server? I was
>hoping to run Eudora under WINE but WINE is broken for NetBSD-1.5 i386.
I use fetchmail and exmh. Fetchmail can poll multiple mail servers,
using a variety of different protocols. You have a variety of options
for delivery. The default is to send the mail to your local mail
server, so a local pop client can pick it all up. I send mine to a
long procmail script that invokes rcvstore (part of mh and nmh) to the
appropriate folder; exmh then tells me which folders have new mail.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb