Hello Gunnar:
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:04:00 +0100 Gunnar Thoele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hallo Samuel!
>> This sounds like a very interesting project. Please tell us more.
> Oh, i never finished it because real POP3 mailers are so much better.
> In the course of the privatisation of the german telephone network, one
> company offered phone calls where the first minute of the call would be
> free of charge. So i had the idea to get my email one-by-one by dialing
> a free ISP, getting mail, and hanging up 55 seconds after dialing,
> repeating the process as long as there are mails on the server.
> As i found no email program that could do what i want, i had to write
> something myself that would do the phone calls and do the mail exchange
> with the POP3 server.
>> What is the 4DOS batch language, where can you get it, and with what
>> DOS versions is it compatible?
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Thanks for the information you have provided us on the 4DOS batch language
and your scheme for minimizing your connect time on your POP3 server.
The best way I have found for minimizing connect time on a server from
which you may download incoming mail is to set up your "reply-to" so as
to have your mail sent to an IMAP server instead of a POP3 server, or
perhaps you could have your POP3 server instructed to forward all your
mail to an IMAP server. Then you log on to your IMAP server by use of
an IMAP-compatible internet mail client such as PC-PINE for DOS. See
http://www.washington.edu/pine. (I have been well-informed that PC-Pine
for DOS is the *only* IMAP-compatible mail client that will work with DOS.
Many such mail-clients have been designed for use with Windows) When you
access your mail on the IMAP server all of the headers will be displayed on
an index. Then you selectively tag those messages you want to immediately
download, or delete. The messages selected for download will be downloaded
and saved, and the unwanted messages will be deleted on the server. The
non-selected messages will remain on the server. Then you exit your mail
client and disconnect. You may then access your IMAP server again later to
download those non-selected messages that you did not download the first
time, etc. You can enjoy using an IMAP server for free simply by signing up
at http://www.subdimension.com or at http://www.telebot.com. In my
experience, I have found the server offered by Subdimension to be more
reliable than than the one at Telebot.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
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