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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
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Subject: Re: EMAIL for IBM PC's - SMTP Ethernet service
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Date: 19 Jul 90 13:15:02 GMT
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    From: Peter Murray <usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!pemurray@ucsd.edu>
    Subject: Re: EMAIL for IBM PC's - SMTP Ethernet service
    
    POP itself is an RFC (can't remember the number right now).  There are
    many commercial and free distributions of the client programs.  You can
    find them for PCs, MACs, and just about any other kind of computer.

The subject of supported, commercial POP{2,3} servers is of some
concern to us, because our next major release will include a PCMAIL
(RFC 1056) client, and a mail reader which will also fall back to
POP/SMTP.  As far as I know, there aren't any supported PCMAIL servers
(there are at least two OS/2 clients right now, ours and Essex Systems').
I only know of two supported POP2 (RFC 937) servers - Sun's and IBM's,
each of which is provided for use with the vendor's DOS client.  I don't
know of any supported POP3 (RFC 1081,82) servers.

If there are commercial, supported servers (POP2, POP3, IMAP or PCMAIL)
I haven't mentioned, please let me know by direct e-mail (I'll post a
summary if needed).  The 4bsd freeware servers won't suit everyone...

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