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Re: access mail on a remote pop server



* On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 Kyle Wheeler (kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> On Thursday, October  4 at 06:14 PM, quoth Joseph:
> >I am trying to access mail on a remote pop server and it seems like a
> >simple procedure:
> >type: c
> >pop://username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> >it should ask me for a password, instead it is giving me message: is
> >not a mailbox
> 
> Is your mutt compiled with pop3 support? It may not be.

That is most likely.


> Also...I *think* the last time I had mutt do that, the URI was 
> pop3://username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/, but I'm not certain.

No Joseph's syntax is correct.

HTH,

Michael
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