[3228] in SIPB bug reports
New program in sipb locker: "pop"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Oct 5 01:10:24 1992
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 01:09:47 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, cfyi@Athena.MIT.EDU
I just installed in the sipb locker a program called "pop". It allows
users to send commands to post office servers, either interactively or
using requests on the command line. Its main advantage over just
telnet'ing to the KPOP port of the post office servers is that it
handles the Kerberos authentication stuff automatically, as well as
stripping off carriage returns and all that.
There is a man page.
It only supports the required subset of POP3 command (e.g., it does
not support a "head" command).
An example usage.... to get message 10 from the post office and leave
the rest:
pop -request connect -request 'retr 10' -request 'dele 10' -request quit
jik
