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Subject: Re: POP clients?
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Date: 23 Jan 91 10:22:25 GMT
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Andrew Patrick  (andrew@calvin.doc.CA) writes, concerning Popmail:

>I have tried running the Packet Driver version of the PC-NFS drivers
>and they work fine, but POPmail then complains that it can't find the
>packet driver, even if I load a second one.  Any suggestions?

We have been successfully using the Clarkson packet drivers with Popmail,
and have found that Popmail will only use the first packet driver it finds.
Perhaps it will work if you make sure your packet driver is using interrupt
0x60 (the lowest usable by packet drivers).



Kjetil Otter Olsen (kjetilo@gollum.uio.no) writes:

>>Subject: Re: POP clients?
>>From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
>>Date: 22 Jan 91 21:57:18 GMT
>>
>>	I have tried running the Packet Driver version of the PC-NFS drivers
>>	and they work fine, but POPmail then complains that it can't find the
>>	packet driver, even if I load a second one.  Any suggestions?
>>
>>POPmail needs to be re-written to use a resident TCP/IP stack (like PC-NFS,
>>Win/PC, BW-TCP or PC/TCP) instead of containing its own.  I don't know
>>which of the freeware stacks it uses, but the work should't be too horrible.
>>
>>James B. VanBokkelen		26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA  01880
>>FTP Software Inc.		voice: (617) 246-0900  fax: (617) 246-0901
>>
>
>If source is made available I can try the PC-NFS part.
>
>Is the source available ? If so; where ??

After we pestered them a bit, the U of M people gave us the source for
Popmail.  It is written in Turbo Pascal 6.0, and seems fairly well written.
I suggest you email Earl Schelske at:

	earl@boombox.micro.umn.edu

for details.  Earl has been very helpful with some problems we had getting
Popmail to run over a 2400 baud SLIP connection.  Damn fine service, when
you consider what we pay for it. 8^)

We may be doing some mods ourselves (i.e. saving mail messages, list of
message topics, etc).  It would be nice if we could all coordinate any mods
we make, so nobody ended up reinventing the wheel.  Maybe any changes could
be sent to U of M, and they could put the ones they liked in the next release.

-Tom

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