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Peter Evans 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?

I used to use popclient on my Slackware 3.0 system, (kernel 1.3.18)
system and it was fine.

I've upraded (?) to RedHat 4.1 and now use fetchpop (which I got down
off the 'net from somewhere that escapes me now...).  It can run as an
application as a once-off, or as a daemon which checks your POP server
every X minutes.

Both place main in your inbox (/var/spool/username) and you can read it
with Pine (which I mostly use) or Netscape (which I sometimes use) or
whatever your choice is.

If you have more than one user on your machine with a/c's on POP
servers, even if they're different ones, each user can start their own
daemon that will drop their mail in the appropriate spot.

You'll need to have your sendmail (or whatever) configured to send mail
(!) and remember not to send as root ! 

Happy POPing

Andrew