frenchie Files

frenchie v1.1.1
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Apr 14, 2001


Frenchie is a simple pop3 and imap mail fetch utility that does not require
a MTA such as sendmail or qmail.  Frenchie is written in pure Tcl and should
run with any 8.x.x version, so you will need Tcl installed on your box to use
it.  There are several configuration options that are stored in 
~/.frenchie/frenchierc that frenchie uses, and they are as follows:

hosts       - A comma separated list of hosts you wish to pull mail from.
loginIDs    - Comma separated list of login id's in the same order as their
              host.
passwds     - Comma separated list of pass words, in the same order as the 
              host list.
ports       - Comma separated list of ports to read from, in the same order has
              the hosts list.
servertypes - Yet another comma separated list giving the type of each
              server in the host list.
mailfile    - The path of the Unix mail file to write read messages to.
deletemsgs  - 'Y' Delete the messages from the server, 'N' means leave them.
newmsgs     - This option is used if you plan to leave the messages on the pop 
              server, and it will only fetch new messages down.
              NOTE: MS-POP, AND NEWER POP SERVERS DO NOT SUPPORT THE
                    LAST COMMAND IN SOME CASES.  FOR THESE TYPE SERVERS,
                    ALWAYS SET newmsgs TO {N}!
quiet       - Tells frenchie to keep quiet on the message down load.

Installation
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To install frenchie, login as root and run the install script that came
with the distribution. If you happen to be on windows, just go to the command
prompt and cd to the directory you extracted frenchie too, and type tclsh 
install.  The first time you run frenchie, it will create a .frenchie 
directory in your home directory or where ever the FRENCHIE_HOME environment
variable points to, and place a file named frenchierc in it.  You will be told 
to edit this file and add the info about your mail accounts.

NOTE: If you have run frenchie (v1.x) in the past, please delete or rename
      your old frenchierc file, as the older files will not work with this
      version.

Contact info
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If you have any problems, questions or comments, please email me at:
creat@lowcountry.com

The latest version of frenchie is kept at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/frenchie/

If you have a problem with frenchie failing on connect or down loading 
mail from your mail server, please run frenchie with a -d option and email 
the output to me, and I will try and fix it or get back to you ASAP.

TO-DO
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  - add .forward file handling
  - add spam fighting code
  - add multi imap folder reading  
  - fix imap header problems on some servers.