[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] pop vs. smtp

golds@rlgvax.UUCP (Rich Goldschmidt) (04/27/89)

I am curious to get comments about the availability and/or usefulness
of pop and smtp for implementing PC email in a tcp-ip environment.
Anyone have any experience with both?  I saw a post about how to get 
pop, but is a public domain smtp equally accessible for PC's?  Is it
any easier or better than pop?  Thanks...

Rich Goldschmidt
uunet!rlgvax!golds

jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (04/27/89)

I think a p-d SMTP for PCIP exists, look on venera.isi.edu.  I know nothing
about it, other than that some people at ISI did it, and posted that it was
available.

SMTP is less useful under DOS than store-and-forward mail protocols like
POP or Mark Lambert's PCMAIL.  I think you can get a PCMAIL version for
PCIP from allspice.lcs.mit.edu, and this would be worth looking into (we
have about a dozen people in-house using it).

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