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Started by Larry Meadows
Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:55
POP/Sendmail client for unix
Author: Larry Meadows
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:55
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:55
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I'll try posting in this group. What I'm trying to do is use portable unix machines (e.g., Tadpole Sparcbook) to read mail. Obviously one can log in to the home machine & read mail that way, but it tends to be slow & run up phone costs. Also, one can use uucp, but it is complicated to set up -- also, I don't really want the remote machine to look like a separate machine. So, what I'd like to do is similar to what the Eudora mail app. does on the mac. It uses the Post-Office Protocol to read mail and transfer it to the remote machine, where it can be read at leisure. It uses the SMTP protocol to send mail, but mail can be queued on the remote machine & transferred in a batch. This is much more efficient both in terms of long distance charges and in terms of usability -- i.e., you can compose mail on the local machine with multiple windows, etc. Question is, has anyone written a mail agent for unix that fulfills these desires -- I've beeen looking around, so far no luck. Thanks. -- Larry Meadows The Portland Group lfm@pgroup.com
Re: POP/Sendmail client for unix
Author: David Collier-Brown
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:42
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:42
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fm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes: [speaking of pop clients] |Question is, has anyone written a mail agent for unix that fulfills |these desires -- I've beeen looking around, so far no luck. There's three: MH which can be compiled to use pop and smtp in inc, mailchk and post a version /usr/ucb/mail that uses pop, and Pine, the sucessor to elm, which uses IMAP. The pine imap server is also a pop server: the protocols are related and similar in general, but aimed at somewhat different uses when looked at in detail. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave 72 Abitibi Ave., | Willowdale, Ontario, | Stupidity is evil waiting to happen. CANADA. 416-223-8968 | -- Clay Bond
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