popclient and smr -- get mail from or send mail to a server: POP, SMTP clients
author: Steven Young    <dreamer@ninsei.com)   posted 24 Feb 1997
 
I haven't had a chance to test these programs, and the author's e-mail
address doesn't work for me.  But I think these are potentially
important contributions to Minix, and I am posting them for that
reason.  I would appreciate feedback from anyone who tries them.

Al
awoodhull@hamp.hampshire.edu
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From dreamer@DEDICAVIA.INETCAN.NET Sat Mar  1 10:33:59 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 03:44:22 GMT
From: Digital Dreamer <dreamer@DEDICAVIA.INETCAN.NET>
To: MINIX-L@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
Subject: Popclient + smr

  Greetings!

  One night not so long ago, I found myself needing to send/receive email
from remote sites to and from my Minix machine.  Now, obviously there was
not sufficient time to write an entire SMTP server such as sendmail for
Minix, so instead, I did two things.

  First, I ported popclient to Minix.  This port is rather unclean and
perhaps even unstable (see the URL below for information on why) due to
the speed at which I did it.  This allowed me to grab mail from my ISP's
pop server and read it.

  But now I needed a way to send it, and for this, I wrote a utility
called 'smr'.  This sends mail to a remote site via SMTP.  It's also
fairly zippy.

  Now I have a way to send and receive email.

  I figured this set of two utilities might make life a bit easier for
those of you using Minix out there (assuming you have access to a system
running a pop server), and so now I'm releasing them.  They're too large
to attach to a message, so if you visit

  http://wiw.org/~dreamer

  you can grab both of them.  Also on that webpage is a small, slightly
more in-depth description of each.  Both utilities have only been tested
on Minix-32, I have no idea if they'll work in -16, but I have no doubt
that they'll need some tweaking either.

  dreamer