-> Depends what BBS software you're accessing.  Some software, such as Synchron

-> will let you access netmail using an email client.  Other software (e.g. 
-> Mystic) will only let you access local messages via POP/SMTP. 
 
-> I'm not aware of a way to a way to access echomail via POP/SMTP, but they ca

-> be accessed on a lot of systems using NNTP with a newsreader.  Both Synchron

-> and Mystic support NNTP access, and other systems could use JAMNNTPD.  On yo

-> end, Thunderbird can be configured to access NNTP. 
  
WINServer can support NNTP as well :) 
 
... Gotta run, the cat's caught in the printer. 
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