[Tfug] Telnet/mail

[John E. Morrow]

A couple of addendums to my kmail/evolution note. I just upgraded
evolution to 1.5 and it won't quit properly (it won't quit, ever...it's
beginning to more than just look like outlook...) Evolution also has all
kinds of other crap,er, stuff in it - calendars and whatnot - which I
suppose is cool if you want all that - I prefer just mail.

John


On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 19:55, John E. Morrow wrote:


> 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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