Re: [bug-mailutils] pop3client

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Dennis Heuer <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like to use mailutils without any extra software. The only thing
> missing is a POP3  client for receiving from a network server and
> storing into a local mbox file. I tried fetchmail which is not storing
> but just streaming and grepmail which had connection problems I couldn't
> figure out. 

You can use sieve to download messages via POP3 or IMAP4:

# download.siv
require "fileinto";
fileinto "/var/spool/mail/username";
# eof

$ sieve -f pop://your.pop.server download.siv

> Do you already plan integrating a pop3 client?

Hmm, no, not yet.

Regards,
Sergey