From: JF Mezei [jfmezei.spamnot@videotron.ca]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:52 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: VT POP3 client?

Alphaman wrote:
> If not, are there any other terminal based POP3 clients available?

I have written a POP to message_router interface. It picks up my emails from
the ISP's POP server and delivers it to message router (which then delivers it
to my allin1 mailbox).  It is home grown and not productized since there is no
VMS market for such things.

To deliver to VMSmail, such a program would have to find the trick to fake the
sender's address so that the message would be replyable to the original sender
 as well as format each address in the RFC header equally so that REPLY/ALL
will work.

If you just want occasional picking of up messages just to get their contents,
you can easily use KERMIT to dump the mailbox contents.

SET NET TCP
LOG SESSION MYMESSAGES.LOG
SET HOST pop.myisp.com:110
CONNECT

the stuff you need to send:
USER username
PASS password
STAT
(the above gives you number of messages)
RETR n    (where n = 1 to the number of messages)
DELE n    (where n = 1 to number of messages)
QUIT
(or BYE, can't remember)

each message is terminated by a <cr><lf>.<cr><lf> sequence.