mutt has two varieties of pop support, and its not clear which (or
both) varieties you are talking about:

1 - The fetch-mail function

This doesn't seem enormously useful now that mutt has "mailbox"
support for pop://.

2 - browsing pop:// mailboxes

This is critical. I and others I know use mutt on varieties of
machines, where we need to check our email online, and DON'T have
imap access. The ability to do a quick check of our mail, without
disturbing the mail store, and without installing and configuring
software on all the machines we check mail from, is a huge advantage
to using mutt.

I hope that nobody is even considering removing this support.

The fetch-mail function looks to me like it could be replaced with a
macro that changes to a pop mailbox, selects all the messages, and saves
them in the last mailbox.

Sam

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:20:24AM -0500, David T-G 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simon, et al --
> 
> ...and then Simon White said...
> % 
> % functionality "retired" in favour of good IMAP support and a HOWTO for
> % fetchmail included in the Mutt distribution package?
> 
> Since mutt doesn't have the ability to send mail itself, but depends on
> an MTA, I think it makes perfect sense to not bother with "receiving"
> mail itself, and I'm all for tossing out that chunk of code.
> 
> How many people actually use mutt's pop and that's it for getting their
> messages, other than newbies who try it first and then realize that they
> should use a real downloading program?
> 
> I don't think we should bother with a fetchmail HOWTO just like we don't
> bother with a sendmail HOWTO, but *perhaps* pointers to web sites for
> fetchmail and getmail as well as sendmail, qmail, postfix, exim, ssmtp,
> and maybe a few others (or maybe only one or two, but I don't want to
> start a "no, list MY favorite MTA!" flame war :-) would cover the right
> amount of ground.
> 
> 
> % 
> % -- 
> % [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS:76.25% see www.mersenne.org]
> % Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
> % bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce
> % bigger and better idiots.  So far, the Universe is winning.  -- Rich Cook
> 
> 
> :-D
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