Odd email problem.

[Loki3]

I use a free shell account provided by a non-profit organzation called grex for email. Basicly I ssh in and read my email with mutt and I'm done. Is there anyway I can run a cron job or a program to download my email onto my own machine so I can read it locally? Fetchmail does this using the POP protocal I believe but grex doesn't run a POP service. There's nothing at port 110 which is the POP port if I am correct. Does anyone know if there is a program similar to fetchmail that could do download my email from the grex server and spool it locally? Thanks in advance.

[DavidMD]

Hi, Loki3!

I am a grasshopper and a newbie, so I am totally unqualified to help you.

I do have one question, however, which may or may not be of help.

Does grex support IMAP? If so, perhaps there is software that you could use for the IMAP protocol? (You do have the POP port correct, by the way; at least, Port 110 is the default POP/POP3 port, and I've never had an ISP that did not use it.)

Back in the days when I first started using the Internet, 'uucp' was the common way to transfer files and messages from *NIX platforms. (There was no Linux then, of course.) I do not know if 'uucp' is even used anymore, however, or if it would be appropriate to your situation. (O'Reilly published a book on the protocol, by the way, which I have.)

All I can do, Loki3, is to wish you good luck and offer my moral support -- and to hope that someone who is actually qualified to answer your question can be of help! :)

Cordially,

David
--
http://ddickerson.igc.org/

[sploo22]

One of the options on grex's web site is to make a copy of your mailbox file and retrieve it with ftp. I think there's a command-line ftp client called curl that you could use to automate this.

In case anybody's interested, the web site is grex.cyberspace.org

[Loki3]

Originally posted by sploo22
One of the options on grex's web site is to make a copy of your mailbox file and retrieve it with ftp. I think there's a command-line ftp client called curl that you could use to automate this.

In case anybody's interested, the web site is grex.cyberspace.org

Hmm sounds like the right solution. Or close atleast. Two problems with this though.

1)Chances are I could loose mail via FTP (http://www.cyberspace.org/faq.html#ftpmail)
2)Inless I remember to login in my account will expire.

Maybe a cron job could solve number 2.

and grex does not run imap either so that ideas out.

[Loki3]

I'll talk to the grex people about using kernel. If i ever get it to work, I'll post a How I did it, maybe... If I'm not being lazy.