[Fed-Talk] command line mail
[Fed-Talk] command line mail
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] command line mail
- From: "Jones, Cullen (CIV)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:53:55 -0700
- Thread-topic: command line mail
We have a user on
our campus (Naval Postgraduate School) whom the powers that be have recently
persuaded to move from our Unix mail servers to the MS Exchange server. He is
looking for a way to POP his mail from exchange to his /var/mail folder on his
G5, the way he used to with Unix.
One of our team
suggested using PINE to do so and I was brought in as "the Mac guy" to make that
happen.
Not being a PINE
user since college, (and then only a novice one at that) I did some reading up
on it and it seems to me to be the wrong way of getting him what he wants, he
prefers to do as much command line as he can and although PINE fits that
bill, it uses other programs to get and send its mail, plus it seems to create
its own directory structure rather than a user configurable one.
Seems to me that
there must be something better for this purpose, his ultimate goal is to connect
to the server via POP, get his mail dumped into his /var/mail folder and
organize and respond from that point. He was using mailx with no complaints
until recently.
Any
suggestions?
Cullen Jones
IT Specialist
Naval
Postgraduate School
Monterey,
California
831-656-3335
DSN
756-3335
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth
and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
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