[Tfug] Telnet/mail

[John E. Morrow]

Keith,

I've been playing with both KMail and Evolution. Both work fine with
blackbox - that's what I use. Both support multiple accounts, both are
as easy as outlook or eudora to set up. Both can be installed on a
debian system easily -- apt-get install evolution or apt-get install
kmail.

John

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:47, klsmith@ultrasw.com wrote:
> Brian your an animal!
> 
> I tried it and it worked.  Cool!
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Anyone have a suggestion for a mail client that would:
> 
> 1) run under blackbox
> 2) allow for multiple accounts
> 3) configurable for automating what account mail goes in what directory
> 4) must be simple stupid so I can use it.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for your help.
> 
> Keith
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Murphy <murphy@u.arizona.edu>
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 6:01:54 PM
> To: <tfug@tfug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Telnet/mail
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 05:45:10PM -0700, klsmith wrote:
> > > I thought I could simply look at my mail using telnet (I know it is not
> > > secure)  Just wanted to try.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions on a simple command line app that will allow for
> reading my
> > > mail while it is still on the ISP server?
> > 
> > You'll want to talk to the POP or IMAP ports to read your mail.  SMTP is
> > mostly for sending.
> > 
> > Both mutt and pine (yuck) can read IMAP folders.  Probably pop too, but I
> > haven't used POP in a long time.
> > 
> > If you're really curious about POP...
> > 
> > telnet server 110
> > user username
> > pass password
> > list
> > retr 1
> > quit
> > 
> > 
> > Optionally, the top command will only bring back the number of lines in a 
> message
> > that you specify...
> > 
> > top message# num_of_lines
> > 
> > This is good for seeing the header.  POP is meant to be a simple
> protocol.  
> You can't
> > seek to the middle of a message.  And, not all servers implement top.
> > 
> > See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html for all of the commands.
> > 
> > Brian
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