[KLUG Members] console email program that supports pop3

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 06:49:18 -0800, Rusty Yonkers <therustycook@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am looking for a console based email program that will support pop3
>access....
>I have considered setting up fetchmail and then just pulling stuff
>down local as another option but have never used fetchmail. I do not
>know how hard it would be to setup.
It's pretty easy to set up, and scales to the more complex cases as well.
The are configuration utilities for fetchmail, as well.

>I also do not know if it is something that I can retrieve email messages 
>that have one user name on the server and send them to a different user 
>name on the local box.

Sample configuration file:

poll mercury.voyager.net with proto pop3;
  user marbles74 with password yomamma is
  rbrown here

Easy enough?

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