Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

> Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to
> download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say?  Instead of
> having to view it through the web browser when connected to the
> internet.

yahoo (if you can stand it)

you can get mail from their POP server with `fetchmail' . Just put a
stanza like this in .fetchmailrc:

poll pop.mail.yahoo.com proto POP3
      user YAHOO-USERNAME with password PASSWORD is LOCAL-USERNAME here
      fetchall keep smtphost MYHOSTNAME


Jim