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Re: no popclient?



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).

Remco


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