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Peter Evans (pete1@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
: Hello All,

: This might be a boring old question, but after a good wander around the
: wonderful world of HOWTOs, I still don't know the answer.

: Are there and POP mail clients for linux besides Netscape, or is that
: it?

There are a number. pine can be used as a POP mailer, though it doesn't work
all that well from memory.

There are several POP clients which are designed to retreive mail from a POP
server, then place it in your local inbox, so that it can be read with a
normal, local mail client. I know of at least 3 of these: popclient,
fetchpop and fetchmail. I beleive popclient is obsolete now, replaced by
fetchmail, which seems to work quite well indeed. It can retreive mail from
POP2, POP3 or IMAP servers.

I've just had a look, and it appears that the MH mail handling system also
supports POP. There exists an X mail client, exmh, based on this system.

Hope this helps.

BTW, HOWTOs are not generally the best way of finding what software is
around for a particular purpose. For that you want the Linux Software Map
(LSM). There is an electronic version at http://www.boutell.com/lsm/ which
allows keyword searchs on the database.

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