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From: sam@empery.ncsu.edu (Sam Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: POP clients?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 14:13:16 GMT
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> 
> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but does anyone know of any POP clients other than
> the ones available from NASA and the stuff that comes with PC-NFS?
> There seem to be a bunch for the Mac but only a few for the PC.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> John Rocchio
> Workstation Consultant
> UC Santa Cruz
> 
> 

FTP, Maryland's and IBM's packages have POP. The biggest problem in my
opinion is that they have bad user agents(readers). I would like to see
the POP code isolated as the transport agent(which some of these are), but
have the source available so that it can be used with any user agent. This
is our plan. We are going to try to compile some POP transport code(that is
running on Unix now) with one of the development kits, either FTP's or
Maryland's. Both development kits boast of BSD socket libraries, so the
port should be easy right?

The user agent that we have found to be the best is Netmail, if you know of
any other good ones then let me know.

Sam