Downloading mail by modem?

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2 total messages Started by James Meacham Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:52

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Author: James Meacham
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:52

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Since I don't have my NeXT connected to a network (mine is a solitary and
lonely machine) I have a dial-up internet accout.  Is there any way to
download mail files and read them in 3.0's Mail.app?  I've tried this with
pine and mm mailbox files, but I get a message that "this mailbox is of an
old type".  I've wriiten a script that auotmates the download process, but
it's pretty useless if I can't read the files.

Re: Downloading mail by modem?

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Author: mross
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:42

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James Meacham (jmeacham@world.std.com) wrote:
: Since I don't have my NeXT connected to a network (mine is a solitary and
: lonely machine) I have a dial-up internet accout.  Is there any way to
: download mail files and read them in 3.0's Mail.app?  I've tried this with
: pine and mm mailbox files, but I get a message that "this mailbox is of an
: old type".  I've wriiten a script that auotmates the download process, but
: it's pretty useless if I can't read the files. 

What you need is a uucp feed. I don't know if any public access Internet nodes will
do this, so might have to go the commercial route. Try Holonet (510-704-0160 voice,
or 510-704-1058 modem). They have dial-up numbers locally all over the country, and
are pretty cheap. The minimum is $6/month. I believe there's also a pretty hefty
one-time setup charge.

-- 
Michael Ross
Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: +1 415 431 3650

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