<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> "My personal recommendation is to scrap fetchmail. [...] Write your own POP3
> client, and be done with it."
>
> Nice in theory. Problem is this: sungo only knows Fortran at this point
> (free credit hours) though I'm going to teach myself Perl this summer. Is
> there anyway I can get a temporary version of what you suggested to hold
> me over until I know enough Perl to write my own? searched freshmeat and
> linuxapps to find only bastardized versions of fetchmail and scripts to
> tell me if i *have* mail, not to go get the mail itself and inject it
> straight in the mailbox. any thoughts?
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799/getpop3.README.html is my
bare-bones POP3 client. This is the first thing I ever wrote after
liberating my PC by loading Linux.
--
Sam