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 > -- > David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles > (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie > (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! > -- Sam Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
