At 03:19 PM 1/22/98 -0600, Sammy wrote:
>
>
>On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, StormeRider wrote:
>
>> Set up my Linux box and was wondering if anyone has done any work with
>> something like Perl or shell scripting to telnet into a POP mail server on
>> port 110, log in with a username and password, see how many messages are
>> there, take them and dump them to a file, remove them from the server, and
>> quit out?
>
>Try looking for popclient, or something similar, on sunsite or any other
>linux resource. It's a shell-based program that has a lot of options, so
>you can use it to view your mail, put it in a local file, add it to your
>local inbox, etc. I haven't used it, but I've seen it used.
>
>Personally I use pine's popmail feature. Just edit your .pinerc file and
>put your personaly name, user-domain, and smtp server in, then in the
>incoming folders section you'll need an entry similar to this:
>
>incoming-folders={mail.ici.net/pop3}INBOX
>
Did that, just want to put it to my local disk and take it offline with all
the many eamils I get from the list I dont want to have to be online with
my ISP to read my mail.
>The pine approach works best if you set it up in a linux account with the
>same username as the one you use on your popmail account. If you don't,
>and you set this up as root, for example, sending mail from pine will list
>your return address as root@ici.net, which wouldn't be a good thing :)
>
>Sam
>
Or logging in as winds checking mail as silk, sending mail as winds, which
is valid and mine, but isnt on the list =)
StormeRider --- http://www.windsofstorm.net/wos/
silk@ici.net --- telnet://cmoo.com:4004
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