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From: glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: POP, POP2 and PC/TCP
Message-ID: <2306@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 89 20:02:54 GMT
Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
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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