Popping mail or fetchmail

[Dan Murphy]

Hi all.
I recently tried the thing where I changed the in box path in Pine to
reflect my ISP's pop server, and it works great, but what are the pros and
cons regarding this technique over using fetchmail, which I've also used
quite successfully?
Thanks.


Dan Murphy
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