Email Checking

[dominicw]

I would like to have the program check my email and read the subjects or headers or maybe just the senders (whatever works).  Is there a way to program Hal so that I can request that it checks my email account, and then have it do so and read me the info?

Sorry if this is a newbie question, but I am a newbie....

Thanks for your help,

[Rich_A]

Hello Dominicw,
If you have Hal 5.0 you can go into "General Options" and then select the "Internet" tab. Then you should see the fields to enter email account information. But it looks like that Hal will only work with POP3 E-mail type servers. If you have an ISP then the email service with that ISP must be a POP3 type in order for Hal to work.
What is POP3?...well, if you have AOL, I am pretty sure that is not POP3. Hotmail is a web-based POP3, but the last that I heard was that it does not work very well with other integrated applications. However, I did hear that EarthLink is one of the best ISP POP3's out there. Below is a link to CyberBuddy Email Setup Information and I also posted an unformatted list of the same information below the link.
Good Luck,
Rich_A

http://thecyberbuddy.com/Page28.html

Here are some mail servers for some popular email services. Note that these are subject to change.
ISP Incoming Mail Server Outgoing Mail Server  
Earthlink mail.earthlink.net mail.earthlink.net  
Mindspring mail.mindspring.com mail.mindspring.com  
MSN (May not work) pop3.email.msn.com smtp.email.msn.com  
Prodigy pop.prodigy.net smtp.prodigy.net  
Worldnet postoffice.worldnet.att.net mailhost.worldnet.att.net  
ATT Worldnet postoffice.worldnet.att.net mailhost.worldnet.att.net  
Geocities mail.geocities.com  
Nettaxi pop1.nettaxi.com  
ForFree pop.forfree.at  
AmexMail pop.amexmail.com  
SoftHome pop.SoftHome.net  
Pacific Bell Internet postoffice.pacbell.net  
GTE.net mail.gte.net  
IX.netcom popd.ix.netcom.com  
LVDI net mail.lvdi.net  
Illuminet pop.illuminet.net  
MCI popserver.sfu.ca  
Gibralter Data Services pop.gibralter.com  
Sprint Canada pop3.sprint.ca  
SprintMail pop.a001.sprintmail.com  
Bell Canada pop1.sympatico.ca  
Frontier Net mail.frontier.net mail.frontier.net  
Heartland mail.hcis.net mail.hcis.net  
Sympatico ca pop6.sympatico.ca smtp1.sympatico.ca  
Cox Cable pop.east.cox.net smtp.east.cox.net

[dominicw]

Thanks, I have owned a medium enterprise hosting company for about 9 years...I should have clarified that I am aware of what a pop email is, I am trying to find a command or code to edit a brain file that would allow me to request to the program to check my email (on command).  I have seen the options that allow it to check on and off, but what I don't see is to have it check either more often or when I ask it too.  I have tried "Check my email" and every other sentence I can think of.

Thanks for your reply, hopefully you can help me now that I have better explained myself...sorry for the earlier post.

Dominic