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- From: mross@antigone.com
- Subject: Re: Downloading mail by modem?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.024222.676@antigone.com>
- Organization: Antigone Press, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:42:22 GMT
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- James Meacham (jmeacham@world.std.com) wrote:
- : Since I don't have my NeXT connected to a network (mine is a solitary and
- : lonely machine) I have a dial-up internet accout. Is there any way to
- : download mail files and read them in 3.0's Mail.app? I've tried this with
- : pine and mm mailbox files, but I get a message that "this mailbox is of an
- : old type". I've wriiten a script that auotmates the download process, but
- : it's pretty useless if I can't read the files.
-
- What you need is a uucp feed. I don't know if any public access Internet nodes will
- do this, so might have to go the commercial route. Try Holonet (510-704-0160 voice,
- or 510-704-1058 modem). They have dial-up numbers locally all over the country, and
- are pretty cheap. The minimum is $6/month. I believe there's also a pretty hefty
- one-time setup charge.
-
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- Michael Ross
- Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
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