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From: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Help needed setting up a POP server
Message-ID: <25F69D90.23418@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 90 17:59:44 GMT
References: <513@umrisca.usenet.umr.edu>
Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In article <513@umrisca.usenet.umr.edu> jmd@ee.umr.edu (Jim Dumser) writes:
>I've been trying to set up some PCs in our department so professors who are
>"PC-bound" can have E-mail.  On the PC side, I'm using SU PCP-IP 3.104
>(with MH 3.101).  As a pop server, we have a couple of choices: a Vax 11/780
>(BSD 4.3), a Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.0.3), or a Sparcstation I (4.0.3c).
>
>I pulled popd out of mh-6.6, and compiled it on the Vax.  It compiled fine,
>but I get a bus error and it dumps core when executing.

Have you installed all of MH?  I'm not sure if popd can run without the
rest of MH installed.

>There was a popd program already on the 3/60.
>...it implements the POP2 protocol as described in RFC937.

MH implements POP3 not POP2, so I think you're out of luck with that
program.  I'll be happy to work with you on this, as we're interested
in doing similar things here at UCI.  You can reach me via e-mail at
bug-mh@ics.uci.edu.

--
John Romine