[KLUG Members] console email program that supports pop3

[Peter Buxton]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:49:18AM -0800, Rusty Yonkers was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> I am looking for a console based email program that will support pop3
> access.  I want to be able to get to my charter email from my linux
> box at home console based so that I can ssh in to my home box and do
> email.  I can send from pine but it looks like pine needs an imap
> server for receving email.  

Mutt can do POP3 or IMAP and is the best console MUA around these days.
I use fetchmail to pull down email from my ISP, but Mutt can do POP3
directly.

www.mutt.org
http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/

> 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.  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.

Indeed fetchmail can. Check out `man fetchmail fetchmailrc`

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