Re: How do I make pop support do polling?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed on mutt-users that: 

>Yes, many moons ago, I was promoting the way that a number of other
>Unix MUAs handle POP3 mail.  They keep a local record of mail in the
>POP3 mailbox (not copies of the mail messages themselves) and thus you

I asked ESR this - and his reply was "if you want an interactive pop
client you know where to look".

Yeah, sure - but, something commandline like fetchmail which is _also_
interactive (allowing you to download headers from a pop3 mailbox and then
download only those you want to download) would be great.

Ideas?

-suresh

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