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Re: mail problems

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From: Justin Cave
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:21:31 -0600, naveen@biosys.net wrote:

| hi,	the poblem is this. here ( iit madras, india ) a server which
| many of our faculty use does not have a pop server running. so currently
| the way they use mail is to telnet to that server and use unix mail.	
| is there a way to circumvent this. i.e. an email software that can do
| this automatically. i.e. log in check mail and retrieve and then logout.
| 
| 	standardd mail packages which i have seen are able to do this only if
| a pop server is running.
| 
| 	thanks for your time and hope you are able to help me

What sort of server does the machine run?  All the UNIX mail programs
I'm familiar with require a POP server.


Justin Cave <jocave@mit.edu>

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From: jocave@mit.edu (Justin Cave)
Subject: Re: mail problems
Date: 1998/01/17
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