wstef@beta.eng.clemson.edu (W. Gregg Stefancik) (01/24/89)
Are their any POP servers or clients in the public domain? Do any of the mail user agents such as MH or ELM have an option to use POP instead of dealing a mail file? Please reply via mail. W. Gregg Stefancik < wstef@eng.clemson.edu >
mrc@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Mark Crispin) (01/25/89)
I don't know about POP servers/clients, but a publicly available server and client for the Interactive Mail Access Protocol (IMAP2) described in RFC 1064 is available for non-commercial usage. The current software is: . servers: BSD Unix (written in C), DEC-20 (written in assembly language) . clients: portable (written in C), Xerox Lisp, TI Common Lisp The portable client is available for BSD Unix; ports for the Macintosh, MS-DOS, and NeXT are in the works (the BSD Unix version runs on the NeXT as is, but no fancy window/menus). An earlier version of the portable client runs on the DEC-20. IMAP is much more powerful than POP; I like to say that IMAP is to POP the way a BMW is to a tricycle. Contacts for the software are Mark Crispin (mrc@Blake.ACS.Washington.EDU) and Bill Yeager (yeager@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU). -- Mark -- -------
mrose@TWG.COM (Marshall Rose) (01/26/89)
Drop a note to Postmaster@ics.uci.edu and ask about the current release of MH. This includes a POP client and server. MH is available under no licensing restrictions whatsoever (other than the usual "don't sue us" disclaimer). It is also somewhat more common than similar protocols such as IMAP2, since POP has been around for the last 4+ years... /mtr