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From: hmm@laura.irb.informatik (Martin Mosner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: status of POP
Message-ID: <56@laura.irb.informatik>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 09:10:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: laura.56
Posted: Tue Jun 30 09:10:04 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 02:57:22 EDT
Reply-To: hmm@unido.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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Keywords: POP server

Does anyone know which version of POP (the Post Office Protocol) is
the most recent ?  I've got a protocol description dating from
February 1985 (rfc837) which describes POP version 2, and says that
it replaces rfc918.  On the other hand, I've got a server from the
MH mail system which has a date of Sun Oct 28 16:23:26 1984 attached
to it and implements a slightly different protocol.  Now it seems
that this server is obsolete, but there's an accompanying document
from October 1985 which describes exactly this protocol and states
that it is a revised version of rfc918.  And all these 3 items have
been written by Marshall T. Rose...  Now I don't know whether I
should take the server as given and implement my client accordingly,
or should rewrite the server to speak POP2, or whatelse.
Can anyone enlighten me ?

	Hans-Martin
	hmm@unido.uucp
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