johnroc@ucsco.ucsc.edu (John Rocchio) (01/15/91)
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but does anyone know of any POP clients other than the ones available from NASA and the stuff that comes with PC-NFS? There seem to be a bunch for the Mac but only a few for the PC. Thanks in advance, John Rocchio Workstation Consultant UC Santa Cruz
sam@empery.ncsu.edu (Sam Moore) (01/15/91)
> > Sorry if this is a FAQ, but does anyone know of any POP clients other than > the ones available from NASA and the stuff that comes with PC-NFS? > There seem to be a bunch for the Mac but only a few for the PC. > > Thanks in advance, > > John Rocchio > Workstation Consultant > UC Santa Cruz > > FTP, Maryland's and IBM's packages have POP. The biggest problem in my opinion is that they have bad user agents(readers). I would like to see the POP code isolated as the transport agent(which some of these are), but have the source available so that it can be used with any user agent. This is our plan. We are going to try to compile some POP transport code(that is running on Unix now) with one of the development kits, either FTP's or Maryland's. Both development kits boast of BSD socket libraries, so the port should be easy right? The user agent that we have found to be the best is Netmail, if you know of any other good ones then let me know. Sam
sec@cs.umn.edu (Stephen E. Collins) (01/16/91)
In <9101151413.AA00278@gyro> sam@empery.ncsu.edu (Sam Moore) writes: >> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but does anyone know of any POP clients other than >> the ones available from NASA and the stuff that comes with PC-NFS? >> There seem to be a bunch for the Mac but only a few for the PC. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> John Rocchio >> Workstation Consultant >> UC Santa Cruz We developed POPmail at the University of Minnesota. There is a Macintosh and an IBM version. The IBM version was recently completely rewritten to be very user-friendly. It also includes a feature that allows you to automatically process a file as a binhexed document, both sending and receiving. It can all be obtained via anonymous ftp at boombox.micro.umn.edu (128.101.95.95) TELL PRESIDENT BUSH WE CAN WAIT: (202) 456-1111; FAX: (202) 456-2883 Send a Telegram (charge to phone, VISA/MC/AMEX): (800) 325-6000 Stephen E. Collins University of Minnesota Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Center sec@boombox.micro.umn.edu | sec@umnacvx.bitnet | FAX: (612)625-6817
andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) (01/20/91)
In article <1991Jan16.005452.3804@cs.umn.edu> sec@cs.umn.edu (Stephen E. Collins) writes: ... >We developed POPmail at the University of Minnesota. There is a >Macintosh and an IBM version. The IBM version was recently >completely rewritten to be very user-friendly. It also includes >a feature that allows you to automatically process a file as >a binhexed document, both sending and receiving. > >It can all be obtained via anonymous ftp at >boombox.micro.umn.edu (128.101.95.95) I have checked out this software and it looks very nice. It relies on the Clarkson packet drivers, which is fine, but I would like to use it along with PC-NFS (I don't like Lifeline). Does anyone know hoe to run both pieces of software. I have tried running the Packet Driver version of the PC-NFS drivers and they work fine, but POPmail then complains that it can't find the packet driver, even if I load a second one. Any suggestions? -- Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA andrew@calvin.doc.CA andrew@doccrc.BITNET Bill Watterson for President!
jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") (01/23/91)
I have tried running the Packet Driver version of the PC-NFS drivers
and they work fine, but POPmail then complains that it can't find the
packet driver, even if I load a second one. Any suggestions?
POPmail needs to be re-written to use a resident TCP/IP stack (like PC-NFS,
Win/PC, BW-TCP or PC/TCP) instead of containing its own. I don't know
which of the freeware stacks it uses, but the work should't be too horrible.
James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880
FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901kjetilo@gollum.uio.no (Kjetil Otter Olsen) (01/23/91)
>Subject: Re: POP clients? >From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") >Date: 22 Jan 91 21:57:18 GMT > > I have tried running the Packet Driver version of the PC-NFS drivers > and they work fine, but POPmail then complains that it can't find the > packet driver, even if I load a second one. Any suggestions? > >POPmail needs to be re-written to use a resident TCP/IP stack (like PC-NFS, >Win/PC, BW-TCP or PC/TCP) instead of containing its own. I don't know >which of the freeware stacks it uses, but the work should't be too horrible. > >James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 >FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901 > If source is made available I can try the PC-NFS part. Is the source available ? If so; where ?? ------ Kjetil Otter Olsen kjetilo@gollum.uio.no PC / Network Consultant voice:+47-2-453488 fax:+47-2-455770 Central Computing Service, University of Oslo, Norway ------
bushell@HAWK.NSTN.NS.CA (01/23/91)
Andrew Patrick (andrew@calvin.doc.CA) writes, concerning Popmail: >I have tried running the Packet Driver version of the PC-NFS drivers >and they work fine, but POPmail then complains that it can't find the >packet driver, even if I load a second one. Any suggestions? We have been successfully using the Clarkson packet drivers with Popmail, and have found that Popmail will only use the first packet driver it finds. Perhaps it will work if you make sure your packet driver is using interrupt 0x60 (the lowest usable by packet drivers). Kjetil Otter Olsen (kjetilo@gollum.uio.no) writes: >>Subject: Re: POP clients? >>From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") >>Date: 22 Jan 91 21:57:18 GMT >> >> I have tried running the Packet Driver version of the PC-NFS drivers >> and they work fine, but POPmail then complains that it can't find the >> packet driver, even if I load a second one. Any suggestions? >> >>POPmail needs to be re-written to use a resident TCP/IP stack (like PC-NFS, >>Win/PC, BW-TCP or PC/TCP) instead of containing its own. I don't know >>which of the freeware stacks it uses, but the work should't be too horrible. >> >>James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 >>FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901 >> > >If source is made available I can try the PC-NFS part. > >Is the source available ? If so; where ?? After we pestered them a bit, the U of M people gave us the source for Popmail. It is written in Turbo Pascal 6.0, and seems fairly well written. I suggest you email Earl Schelske at: earl@boombox.micro.umn.edu for details. Earl has been very helpful with some problems we had getting Popmail to run over a 2400 baud SLIP connection. Damn fine service, when you consider what we pay for it. 8^) We may be doing some mods ourselves (i.e. saving mail messages, list of message topics, etc). It would be nice if we could all coordinate any mods we make, so nobody ended up reinventing the wheel. Maybe any changes could be sent to U of M, and they could put the ones they liked in the next release. -Tom ****************************************************************** * Tom Bushell Software Kinetics Ltd * * 101 Ilsley Ave * * E-mail - bushell@hawk.nstn.ns.ca Suite 5 * * Phone (902)468-3680 Dartmouth N.S., Canada * * Fax (902)468-3679 B3B 1S8 * ******************************************************************