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From: Crispin@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: RFCs by E-Mail
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Date: 1 Apr 88 22:50:12 GMT
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Jack -

     At SUMEX-AIM, we have a distributed mailsystem called MM-D, which
is supported by a client on Xerox Lisp machines (a TI Lisp machine client
is almost finished, and work has started on a MAC client) and servers on
a DEC-20 and Unix.  It's gotten to the point that several of us have more
or less abandoned logging into the timesharing system to read our mail;
we do it from our workstation.

     MM-D uses the IMAP2 protocol, which compares to POP2 in much the way
a BMW compares to a tricycle.  The modality of IMAP2 is more interactive
than POP2, but there's nothing in IMAP2 that requires that; it can be
used in an offline way such as PC Mail.

-- Mark --
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