Text-based mail program which handles webmail.

[JohnsoBS at vicksburg.navy.mil]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Washington-Yule [mailto:benwy_01 at yahoo.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:02 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Text-based mail program which handles webmail.
> 
> 
> I have a Yahoomail account and receive messages with Mozilla 
> Mail but I 
> would like to at least try a non-GUI mail program. I have 
> heard of mutt 
> and pine but I am not sure if I can download my webmail 
> (Yahoo) messages 
> with them. I am sure that the information is available on the 
> internet 
> but my research thus far has been for the most part too 
> technical for my 
> understanding but I have deduced that my problem has something to do 
> with pop, whatever that may be.

There is a port called fetch-yahoo or similar. It can be used to download
mail to a local mailbox for reading. Not sure of anything that will read
your wemail directly unless it supports external pop or imap as well. Yahoo
I believe does support pop3 if I remember correctly.