Hi,
i don't say I understand the requirements of a handling POP3 within a
stiudent shell a/c, as i hve never used one....however, the following
seems to me to be a very workable solution that may be achieved with a
bit of scripting or whatever else will work teh magic ....(in case u feel
that I am talking through my hat....u probably would be right..... ;-)
1. Log into your student shell account
2. go to the unix prompt provided by your shell a/c
3. at the shell prompt....type `telnet localhost 110` to telnet to the
POP3 port of the server.
4. Now you can use all the standard POP3 commands....LIST, RETR, DELE etc.
5. Now comes the bit which I am not so clear about....we need to save the
output of these command....we probably will have to save on it within our
home directory.
6. Do an sz file name to dump the file(s) on the local machine from the
VSNL server.
7. cat the file into the mail spool directory.
8. Now run pine locally to read or do whatever.
I am not sure but I think that the above sequence is quite
do-able...anyone to fill in if I'm missing something here....?
cheers,
--Indra.
PS. Somehow I wasn't aware of this before....but grep works like a beaut
on/etc/passwd file from the shell prompt of VSNL ;-)
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