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push: fetch mail via POP

NAME

push - fetch mail via POP

SYNOPSIS

[-5 | --krb5 ] [-v | --verbose ] [-f | --fork ] [-l | -leave ] [--from ] [-c | -count ] [--headers = headers ] [-p port-spec | --port = port-spec ] po-box filename

DESCRIPTION

retrieves mail from the post office box po-box and stores the mail in mbox format in filename The po-box can have any of the following formats:

`hostname:username'

`po:hostname:username'

`username [at] hostname'

`po:username [at] hostname'

`hostname'

`po:username'

If no username is specified, assumes that it's the same as on the local machine; hostname defaults to the value of the MAILHOST environment variable.

Supported options:

-5 --krb5

use Kerberos 5 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 5)

-f --fork

fork before starting to delete messages

-l --leave

don't delete fetched mail

--from

behave like from.

-c --count

first print how many messages and bytes there are.

--headers = headers

a list of comma-separated headers that should get printed.

-p port-spec --port = port-spec

use this port instead of the default `kpop' or `1109'

The default is to first try Kerberos 5 authentication and then, if that fails, Kerberos 4.

ENVIRONMENT

MAILHOST

points to the post office, if no other hostname is specified.

EXAMPLES

$ push cornfield:roosta ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box

tries to fetch mail for the user roosta from the post office at ``cornfield'' and stores the mail in ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box (you are using Gnus, aren't you?)

$ push --from -5 havregryn

tries to fetch From: lines for current user at post office ``havregryn'' using Kerberos 5.

HISTORY

was written while waiting for movemail to finish getting the mail.