stryker@cca.ucsf.edu (Michael P. Stryker) (03/19/91)
I wrote to comp.mail.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.unix.msdos to ask about the availability of POP (Post Office Protocol) Clients for MSDOS as follows: >Does anyone know of a public domain or cheap (to universities, at least) >Post Office Protocol (POP) client for MSDOS machines that would function >like Eudora does for Macintoshes, reading and sending mail on smtp hosts >that run the POPServer, communicating over cheap ethernet cards (like >the Western Digital 8003) or serial lines, and running in the background >if desired (as a TSR) to check for incoming mail at user-selected intervals? > >If you email replies to me, I will summarize for the net in a couple of >weeks. I thank everyone for their replies, which were enormously helpful. This is a summary of the replies from the net. The most complete information is in the first two replies listed, from R. Khoo and F. Selkirk. The best advice for further information is to follow comp.protocols.tcp-ip and comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: Ronald S H Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> If you're not already reading comp.protocols.tcp-ip and .tcp-ip.ibmpc, you should be! Here's a recent post from one of those two groups that addresses your question. POP2 clients seem more plentiful than POP3 ones. UMN's popmail looks quite swish. >From: fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: POP2/3, IMAP2/3 Date: 7 Mar 91 18:52:08 GMT I know of the following POP daemons available by anonymous ftp - For Berkeley-style UNIX: ucdavis.edu /dist/pop3d, /dist/pop2d lilac.berkeley.edu popper-1.7.tar.Z (pop3) ics.uci.edu mh/mh-6.7.tar.Z (pop3) thezoo.eng.clemson.edu /pop3/pop3d.shar For VMS: vx.acs.umn.edu (I don't have file names) trident.arc.nasa.gov. DOS POP clients available by anonymous ftp: boombox.micro.umn.edu POPmail/PC trident.arc.nasa.gov PCPOP ucdavis.ucdavis.edu UCDmail DOS POP clients in commercial TCP/IP packages: Sun's Lifeline POP2 client IBM's TCP/IP package POP2 client FTP Software's PC/TCP POP2 and POP3 clients, and PCMAIL. Frances Kirk Selkirk info@ftp.com (617) 246-0900 FTP Software, Inc. 26 Princess Street, Wakefield, MA 01880 Also, similar refs from: >From: "Stephen E. Collins" <sec@cs.umn.edu> >From: Tarjei Jensen <tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) We may also be doing a client here using WATTCP; not sure yet, will announce it if we do. Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca BangPath: {allegra,decvax,utzoo,clyde}!watmath!sunee!broehl Voice: (519) 885-1211 x 2607 [work] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: gwcook@Corp.Sun.COM (Gary Cook - CS Mgr - Latin America) Probably not cheap, but I'll do my corporate duty and plug PC-NFS/Lifeline. Gary W. Cook, C.S. Mgr, Latin America / Carribean * Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2550 Garcia Ave. MS MPK2-1 Mountain View, Ca 94303-1100 Tel: 415-688-9371 Fax: 415-688-9477 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: mir@chorus.fr Of course there is. In the 'IBM TCP/IP for DOS' package at least. The user interface is based on Mail Handle (MH). IBM also include a POP2 server source for Unix on their source diskettes. It doesn't run in the background (you would need a resident socket interface; I know only commercial products, like FTP's). IBM TCP/IP derives from PC/IP, which is public domain and downloadable from many sites, I suppose there is a POP2 client in PC/IP too. Also a lot of universities produced their own versions of PC/IP. I don't know which is the more elaborated one. People on comp.protocols.tcp-ip. ibmpc would surely know and you should have cross-posted to them first. -- Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74 Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: flitter@atisun.dt.navy.mil (Lance Flitter) I don't know what you consider cheap, but PC-NFS / Lifeline mail does most of what you're looking for. You might want to contact Sun for University pricing.