glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko) (06/17/89)
We just installed a POP2 server on our Sun 3/60 OS4 server which came with the Lifeline product for PC-NFS. It works great with PC-NFS, but that's not really our preferred platform here. We are using FTP Inc.'s PC/TCP package on our PCs, and NCSA Telnet or SUMac/IP on our Macs. Now, Mac/IP comes with a mailhandler (v1.0) that is supposed to work with POP, but it isn't working with our Sun's POP2 server (says invalid login name/password). Is POP2 not downward compatible with POP(1?)? Is the latest release of Mac/IP POP2 compliant? Also, is there a POP2 client for PC/TCP either from FTP or a third party? Will NCSA support POP2 in a future release? It is our impression that POP is a MUST for doing SMTP mail on a standalone non-UN*X workstation. Sitting around waiting for mail by manually running SMTPSRV is for hackers, not users. Other than a few esoteric bugs and the non-pretty user interface, this is the only technical thing standing in the way of our fully endorsing the FTP PC/TCP product on our campus-wide ethernet. Any information would be appreciated. -- Glen Marianko - glen@aecom.yu.edu Supervisor of Data Communications and Hardware Support
morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (06/17/89)
> SU-Mac/IP comes with a mailhandler (v1.0) that is supposed to work > with POP, but it isn't working with our Sun's POP2 server (says > invalid login name/password). Is POP2 not downward compatible with > POP(1?)? Is the latest release of Mac/IP POP2 compliant? SU-Mac/IP's Mac/MH client works with a POP3 server, as defined by RFCs 1081 and 1082. Version 6.6 of MH for Unix contains a compatible POP server. MH is available from archive sites like UUNET, or on tape from UC Irvine. (BTW, SU-PC/IP also has a POP3-compatible MH client.) - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford