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:

Ql hostname:username

Ql po:hostname:username

Ql username@hostname

Ql po:username@hostname

Ql hostname

Ql po:username

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

Supported options:

Xo

-4 , --krb4 use Kerberos 4 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 4)

Xo

-5 , --krb5 use Kerberos 5 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 5)

Xo

-f , --fork fork before starting to delete messages

Xo

-l , --leave don't delete fetched mail

Xo

--from behave like from.

Xo

-c , --count first print how many messages and bytes there are.

Xo

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

Xo

-p port-spec , --port Ns = Ns port-spec use this port instead of the default or

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

MAILHOST

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

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

tries to fetch mail for the user roosta from the post office at and stores the mail in ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box (you are using Gnus, aren't you?) $ push --from -5 havregryn

tries to fetch lines for current user at post office using Kerberos 5.

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