On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:34:01 -0500, Barry Kaufman wrote:
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> Question: Is there a POP/IMAP web site, or a small WIN32 POP/IMAP or
> TELNET or otherwise mail program that I can use to assess my Compuserve
> mailbox, and that will save all messages to a single text file like
> TAPCIS does? I will be calling from a WIN32 PC that has internet access
> but not direct dial-up access to Compuserve.
> Thanks, Barry.
Hello Barry:
There are free IMAP sites at http://www.telebot.com and at
http://www.subdimension.com. AFAIK, you cannot use these sites to
access a POP3 account someplace else. You can sign up for a web-based
mail account at http://www.valise.com. The basic service is free, but
if you want to use the site to access a POP3 account someplace else,
then you will have to upgrade your class of service by paying them
$20.00 per year. Valise works with Arachne and with Bobcat/Lynx.
To use Bobcat/Lynx with Valise, you have to resort to a few crazy
tricks and work-arounds that I've discovered. I wrote a note to the
webmaster to tell him how I did it, and he was delighted to hear that
his site was the only web-based email place that I know of that will
work with Bobcat/Lynx. Even though there is a lot of Java-Script at
Valise, it seems that the webmaster is taking special care not to lock
out the Arachnids and the Bobcats.
The DOS program Net-Tamer will download all mail into one long
concatenated file. (Net-Tamer does not work with Valise) Net-Tamer
has a very user-friendly feature that provides for individual message
segments to be snipped out and saved or deleted. With Net-Tamer you
may work with attachments. The program has its own built-in
UUDECODE/UUENCODE and base 64 programs.
You can download a fully functional shareware version from
http://www.nettamer.net. Registration offers a few additional perks
and it removes the nag screens. I really like Net-Tamer, and I
registered it.
Net-Tamer is no hog for memory. It will even run just fine in a 640K
XT. You may configure it for using it with your favorite text editor.
In addition to being a very fine email program, Net-Tamer is also a
very fast www text browser, and it also has a built in FTP and TELNET
program. Also Net-Tamer does news-groups.
With a Windows 95 machine equipped with a WinModem, you can run Net-Tamer
if you click on SHUT DOWN > Restart IN MS-DOS mode. I couldn't get her
to run from a "DOS-box".
All the best,
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
