🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:15:07 +0100, gARetH baBB <hick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> In article <4838C9EC9E%polaris@ursaminr.demon.com.uk>,
>           polaris@ursaminr.demon.com.uk (Peter Smith) wrote:
> 
> > IMO, this is some of the most powerful news and mail software for any
> > computer. If it wasn't for Zap, Messenger and Newsbase, I would have foregon
> 
> Maybe - still quite a few things missing, mainly integration of features.
> 
> And hopefully multiple pop3/smtp connections at the same time will be
> possible soon as I'm writing one. It works except that it's beta, and
> doesn't do SMTP yet.

A POP fetcher that fetches from multiple accounts all at once has been
available for ages. I wrote !POPClient not that long after asking for the
`multiple connection' feature in !POP and being told (perhaps rightly) that
it's something few people would want, and thus fairly low down the list.
It doesn't do SMTP sending, but then I'm of the opinion that a POP fetcher
isn't the place to be doing sending anyway. (I have another program that 
lives in an 8k WimpSlot that tracks down the smtp host for the `external'
domain I'm currently in and throws mail at it - anti-spam tactics now
mean that having multiple dial-up accounts causes trouble with a mailer
that has static setup. So I fixed it.)

In fact, !POPClient does various `weird' things in addition to fetching
a number of accounts at the same time, including repeated fetches with
each user having their own (or using the global) fetch interval.

Works perfectly for me, and has done so for about 14 months (or so). The
only except is that few people bother going past !POP, so I've not
concerned myself that much with ensuring the copy on the freenet site is
up-to-date.
Oh, I take that back, the only other except is that it's a Toolbox
application, and thus somewhat larger than I would like. Given that it
works, and it's apparently tiny userbase, that's not likely to change,
however.

-- 
J,
wearing his CBHS hat.
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