Re: Mutt and mailboxes

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Andy Saxena wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:23:25AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>
> > Andy Saxena wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think Squirrelmail allows access to POP mailboxes.
> >
> > Check out squirrelmail's web page.  Look at the plugins.
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer, but I don't see any plug-ins that allow POP
> access without downloading it in some way. I looked at the descriptions
> of Mail Fetch and Mail Fetchmail.
>
> An ideal situation would be being able to see the important message
> headers like "From: " and "Subject: " and then being able to download
> the message body by selecting a particular message; sort of like
> pop3browser.

Yeah, you're right, I see nothing that does that.
> I could be wrong, but I think the fundamental idea of Squirrelmail is
> IMAP access (consider the authentication procedure, for example).
>
> Besides, Squirrelmail doesn't provide any way to enter the email server
> information, username and password. I could've overlooked some
> plug-in that does this too :-}.
I am certain that you did.  Use the source, Luke.  :-)

I just noticed that it looks like the POP3 functionality has been 
integrated into the latest squirrelmail (that is why one of the plugins 
is marked "obsolete"), but the documentation on that is extremely 
sparse.  Some time, I am going to play with it...