From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: POP Programs
Organization: Inland Sea
Distribution: mi
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:28:23 GMT


Last night at the SEMiSLUG meeting there were some discussions about
POP (Post Office Protocol) and mail readers which use it.  This morning
the following was posted to the Sun-Managers Mailing List:

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:56:04 PDT
From: jaf@inference.com (Jose A. Fernandez)
Reply-To: jaf@inference.com (Jose A. Fernandez)
Message-Id: <9208132056.AA14795@cana>
Organization: Inference Corporation
Address:      550 N. Continental Blvd., El Segundo, CA  90245
Phone:        (213) 322-0200 x205
Subject: SUMMARY: POP3 -- what is it and how do I get it?

THE ORIGINAL QUESTION:

    We have a small population of PC's equipped with a mailer that requires
    POP3 on our main mail server (a 4/490).  Can you knowledgable folk tell me
    what POP3 is (my guess is that it's another TCP/IP protocol like SMTP) and
    where I can get POP3 software?

POP3 IS:

    POP is the "Post Office Protocol".  POP3 is Version 3 of the Post Office
    Protocol; it is described by RFC 1225.  Earlier versions of POP were
    described by RFC's 108[123], but RFC 1225 supersedes those RCS's.

    Unlike SMTP, which is used to deliver mail to a machine, POP3 is used to
    retrieve mail being stored on a machine (the post office).  POP3 is used
    on a workstation or PC to avoid storing mail on that machine.  The most
    common use of POP3 is by mail readers on PC's and Mac's.

WHERE YOU CAN GET IT:

    First and foremost, ask Archie and choose the server nearest you.
    Locations suggested by respondents included:

	BODE.EE.UALBERTA.CA:/pub/unix.Z/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	EE.UTAH.EDU:/pop3/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	FTP.CC.BERKELEY.EDU:/pub/MacPOP.sit.hqx (Mac Stuffit archive)
	FTP.UU.NET:/mail/popper/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	GATEKEEPER.DEC.COM:/.0/mail/ua/misc/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	GUMBY.DSD.TRW.COM:/pub/email/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	HOBIECAT.PCMP.CALTECH.EDU:/pub/popper.tar.Z
	HOSHI.COLORADO.EDU:/pub/popper-1.831.hpux.tar.Z
	JHUNIX.HCF.JHU.EDU:/pub/SGI/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	LILAC.BERKELEY.EDU:/pub/popper/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU:/pub/unix/popper/popper-1.7.tar.Z
	MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU:/pub/unix/popper/popper-1.7k.tar.Z
	MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU:/pub/unix/popper/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	NETSERV1.ITS.RPI.EDU:/pub-read/mail/pop/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	NETTLERASH.BERKELEY.EDU:/pub/popper/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	NIC.CERF.NET:/netinfo/unix/mail/popper.txt
	NIC.CERF.NET:/pub/packages/mail/popper-1.831beta.tar
	NYU.EDU:/pub/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	ORION.OAC.UCI.EDU:/ntslib/unix/mail/popper/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	OWL.NSTN.NS.CA:/pub/sysV/popper.tar
	PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU:/pub/src/pop/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	PRINCETON.EDU:/pub/popper.tar.Z
	SOLARIA.CC.GATECH.EDU:/pub/other/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	UCSD.EDU:/pub/mail/popper-1.831beta.tar
	UXC.CSO.UIUC.EDU:/mail/popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
	WEBER.UCSD.EDU:/pub/hpux/old/popper.tar.Z
        FTP.CC.BERKELEY.EDU:/pub/popper-version.tar.Z

Thanks to the folk(s) who make this list possible and to all the respondents
listed below:

    Adam Shostack   	<adam%bwnmr4@harvard.harvard.edu>
    Andrew Luebker	<aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu>
    Bob Sutterfield	<bob@MorningStar.Com>
    Brent Chivers	<bchivers@smiley.mitre.org>
    Christopher Davis	<ckd@eff.org>
    Chuck Davisson	<davisson@ida.org>
    Dick St.Peters	<stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
    Dwight Ernest	<dwight@hyphen.com>
    Geert Jan de Groot	<geertj@ica.philips.nl>
    Geoff Halprin	<geoff@fulcrum.oz.au>
    Ian MacPhedran	<macphed@dvinci.usask.ca>
    Jim Watt		<jimw@PE-Nelson.COM>
    Mark J. McIntosh	<Mark.McIntosh@engr.UVic.CA>
    Mike Fisher		<mlf@tcad.ee.ufl.edu>
    Perry E. Metzger	<pmetzger@shearson.com>
    Todd S. Antonson	<antonson@Software.ORG>
    groth curtis a	<cagroth@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov>

Omissions in the above respondent list are either my fault or correspondence
was received after I issued this summary.

Once again, SUN-MANAGERS comes through!

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