[comp.mail.mh] POP

tpersky@nih-csl.UUCP (Ted Persky) (02/23/90)

Would anyone have any information on POP, the Post
Office Protocol?  All I've been able to find is
the RFC (918).  Have any vendors developed implementations
of this?

Sincerely,

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jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine) (02/24/90)

In article <1367@nih-csl.UUCP> tpersky@nih-csl.UUCP (Ted Persky) writes:
>Would anyone have any information on POP, the Post
>Office Protocol?  All I've been able to find is the RFC (918).

Well, to start, there's three versions of the POP.  They're described
by RFC918 (v1), RFC937 (v2) RFC1081/1082 (v3).  POP V1 is considered
obsoleted by V2.

POP V3 is also known as MH/POP.  The MH user agent implements a POP3
client and server.
--
John Romine

jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) (02/24/90)

> In article <1367@nih-csl.UUCP> tpersky@nih-csl.UUCP (Ted Persky) writes:
> >Would anyone have any information on POP, the Post
> >Office Protocol?  All I've been able to find is the RFC (918).
>...
> POP V3 is also known as MH/POP.  The MH user agent implements a POP3
> client and server.

The paper called "MH: A Multifarious User Agent" has a page about POP and
MH.  There's TeX source to the paper in the MH6.6 distribution -- the
papers/multifarious directory.  According to that file, the paper was also
published in "Computer Networks and ISDN Systems" 10(2), September, 1985.

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