Re: Force POP3 mail on login?

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:49:49 -0700 (MST)

I remember an e-mail package (Eudora? Commerical version perhaps? I don't
quite remember) which could do the normal POP/SMTP *or* it could log in to
your shell account, type out telnet [mail server] 110/25 and then do the
pop3/smtp from there. :)

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Paul Andersen (ML) wrote:

> That will not let them send however. You want a program called serialpop
> that runs on the unix host that lets them send/recv email without PPP
> using Eudora's software. It should be on their FTP site. I have a copy I
> think somewhere if you really can't find it.
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----------
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>
> "... and let me tell you! Them crows don't have much bandwidth!" -Blatte
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Robert Boyle wrote:
>
> > At 11:25 AM 3/31/97 -0500, you wrote:
> > >I saw a script for the portmasters/radius that will start a pop3
> > >session automatically when a user logs in. But now I can't find it.
> > >Any leads on this one?
> >
> > Add something like the following to your users file (or database):
> >
> > name Password = "password"
> > User-Service = Login-User,
> > Login-Host = 128.235.12.42,
> > Login-Service = PortMaster,
> > Login-TCP-Port = 110
> >
> > This should work. This will let you use Eudora w/o any PPP software for
> > people that just want REALLY basic email capability.
> >
> > -Robert
> >
> >
> >
>