On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > > I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with > > popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently > > it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the > > binary (popclient) or the equivalent (lightweight) functionality. > > > > The error I get when trying to pop off ANY server via my (rather old) > > popclient binary now is: > > > > popclient: querying mailserv.waikato.ac.nz at Mon Apr 20 15:23:43 1998 > > popclient: openuserfolder: open(): No such file or directory > > > > Now all my local mail readers work fine so there's no reason I know of why > > it's not happy anymore. The only shared lib it uses is libc5 (which I > > have). > > > > Any ideas on how to fix this or what else to use? > > Some time ago, when the popclient program was enhanced to support more > protocols than just POP, the name was changed to fetchmail. fetchmail is > in bo (stable) and also in hamm (frozen).
Thanks, that's just what I needed. Thanks for the quick and helpful response everyone. 8<--------------------------------------->8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8<--------------------------------------->8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]