14 Mar
2004
14 Mar
'04
8:34 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 mjr@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
Are there programs like "mail" for reading over POP3, APOP or IMAP; or should I use mailsync or similar and use GNU mailutils?
Recent-ish versions of pine will read over POP3, and any version I've seen will read over IMAP. I'm not sure about the "small," though: 3.5MB source code archive, producing 3.3MB of binaries, on my machine.
Telnetting to a POP3 server on port 110 will also give you the ability to read mail, in an environment that's (at least superficially) similar to "mail" for local mailboxes. http://www.good-stuff.co.uk/useful/pop3.php gives a list of commands for telnet sessions to POP3 servers.
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HTH
Dan Hatton
http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/