Email client that allows adding pop account from cmd?

Question

I am looking for an email client that allows you to add all pop params:

email, server, password etc from cmd

At the moment our company uses OE but the ability to add a password is not there (the registry wants it as a REG_BINARY and even then points to a different registry location)

Is there an email client out there (free) that allows email accounts to be added in full from cmd?

Pine, Mutt, Thunderbird. Do you really want to communicate passwords and the command line? That sounds like a security disaster. — Zoredache, Aug 29 '11 at 18:09
@Zoredache - it is just for configuring the computers - they wont be transmitted over any networks - I just need to script the account creation process. — Myles Gray, Aug 29 '11 at 18:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '11 at 18:10

Thunderbird has a bunch of tools that allow some sort of centralized configuration: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Configuration_utilities_for_administrators. I haven't tried these, so I don't know if they are suitable for what you want.

I suppose I can suggest curses-based Alpine (where, I suppose, you can centrally generated .pinerc files), but that may cause a rebellion amongst your users.

Email client that allows adding pop account from cmd?

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