I have seen loads of programs that use Net::POP3 and other misc things to *pop mail off of* servers to be read. I may be reading the docs wrong, or misunderstanding the whole POP3 concept and such, but that is the way I am taking it.

What I am curious of is this, is there an existing program anywhere that will read existing mail on a server? I have a linux server in which my mail ends up (surprise here) in /var/spool/mail/<username> - I just want to read that email, but have all the functionality of something like AtDot, Hotmail, YahooMail, and others... Basically, I want the whole being able to send, read, address book, etc, style of package

Does anyone know of such a program? If not, are there any recommendations for writing one?

In reply to Program for reading existing mail by oakley

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