NAME¶

push — fetch mail via POP

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

push retrieves mail from the post office box po-box, and stores the mail in mbox format in filename. The po-box can have any of the following formats:

‘hostname:username’

‘po:hostname:username’

‘username@hostname’

‘po:username@hostname’

‘hostname’

‘po:username’

If no username is specified, push assumes that it's the same as on the local machine; hostname defaults to the value of the MAILHOST environment variable.

Supported options:

-5, --krb5

use Kerberos 5 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 5)

-f, --fork

fork before starting to delete messages

-l, --leave

don't delete fetched mail

--from

behave like from.

-c, --count

first print how many messages and bytes there are.

--headers=headers

a list of comma-separated headers that should get printed.

-p port-spec, --port=port-spec

use this port instead of the default ‘kpop’ or ‘1109’.

The default is to first try Kerberos 5 authentication and then, if that fails, Kerberos 4.

ENVIRONMENT¶

MAILHOST

points to the post office, if no other hostname is specified.

EXAMPLES¶

$ push cornfield:roosta ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box

tries to fetch mail for the user roosta from the post office at “cornfield”, and stores the mail in ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box (you are using Gnus, aren't you?)

$ push --from -5 havregryn

tries to fetch From: lines for current user at post office “havregryn” using Kerberos 5.

SEE ALSO¶

from(1), pfrom(1), movemail(8), popper(8)

HISTORY¶

push was written while waiting for movemail to finish getting the mail.