[Tfug] Telnet/mail

[klsmith]

Thanks John.


----- Original Message -----
From: "John E. Morrow" <morrow@morrow.homeip.net>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [Tfug] Telnet/mail


> 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 i
n 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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