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Subject: Re: [9fans] Collecting POP3 while in travell
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Fri,  5 Jul 2002 15:26:22 +0200
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I am trying to set something up for what you describe
(external POP3 account, dialup access -- have this at home).

I wrote some shell scripts to grab the messages; this seems to work.
(for each message in /mail/fs served by upas/fs, get unixheader and raw)
I think it is possible to remove the grabbed messages,
either by deleting the message directory, or via commands
to /mail/fs/ctl; I have not yet tried either of these.

If there is a better way  to do this I'm interested in hearing it.

Axel.

> Imagine I need to grap messages from an external POP3 account :
>     upas/fs -f /pop/mypopserver.com
> 
> But now, what if the link is a dialup and I want to keep messages after
> disconnecting / rebooting ?
> 
> Better, would it be possible to append those downloaded messages to
> /mail/box/$user/mbox ?
> If so, another question is how to get only new messages since the
> -f option leave a copy of any message on the remote server.
>