[Tfug] Telnet/mail

[johngalt]

No, thank YOU Keith.

klsmith wrote:
> 
> 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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