need simple command line utility to read imap or pop3 mail unattended

[Mike Marchywka]

I have been using mutt and neomutt and found both integrate nicely into
scripts to send mail but on a quick look I could not find out how
read mail ( hotmail, yahoo, gmail, , etc)  Apparently there is something
called fetchmail and somethng else called getmail but not sure
what is easiest. I have my own utility to download entire accounts
that I have used to backup my hotmail but I need this to run on 
12.04 and I had compiled against a bunch of current so's and it was
not immeduately obvious that copying them over would not cause a mess :)

The real problem is I'm trying to communicate with a machine that can not
get a static IP address for monitoring equipment. email is the best I could do :) 

Thanks.


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