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From the CoffeeNet FAQ (and probably useless for my purposes):
http://www.coffeenet.com/FAQ/index.html#copy1
7) How do I retrieve my mail from a remote site using their
"pop3" mail server?
If you want to copy your mail from another, remote
machine to a machine here at The CoffeeNet so that you
can then read and respond to that mail here, you'll do
it using the "pop3" protocol.
To set this up, first you must know the complete
address of the machine you want to log into.
Let's assume for discussion purposes that the machine
you want to access is "hostname.domain.com", and that
you have a user account on that machine called
"my_remote_account".
We will further assume that your login account here at
The CoffeeNet is "my_coffeenet_account"
On Netscape's menubar, select:
Options -> Mail and News Preferences -> Servers
In the section labeled "Outgoing Mail", you should have
"mail.coffeenet.net" in the box for "SMTP server:"
In the section labeled "Incoming Mail", click on the
radio button for "POP3", then in the box labeled
"Server:", enter "hostname.domain.com". In the box labeled
"User Name:", enter "my_remote_account".
Now you have a decision to make. Pop3 can either
download a copy of your messages to the
local machine, leaving the original messages on the
remote machine, or it can MOVE the
messages from there to here, and DELETE the messages on
the remote machine.
There is a label in the "Incoming Mail" section labeled
"After delivery" that allows you to
select "Remove from server" or "Leave on server"
according to the behavior you want.
Next, you can select how often Netscape Mail's pop3
client will check with the server to see
if you have any new mail. In the section labeled "Check
for Mail:", you can select "Every
XX minutes" (in this case, fill in the interval at
which you want it to check), or "Never", in
which case it won't ever go out and get your mail for
you. In order to get it to fetch your
mail, you will need to click on Netscape Mail's "Get
Mail" button in the upper left area of
Netscape Mail's buttonbar.
Lastly, make sure that your "Mail Directory:" is set
to:
"/home/my_coffeenet_account/Mail/"
When all this is set up, click on the "OK" button, then
from the Netscape menubar, select:
Options -> Save Options
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