More than ever, e-mail is an integral part of business productivity. No other service is as important as e-mail, when you consider it is used by virtually everyone at GSFC one way or another. Through this support we provide a reliable and interoperable system that all GSFC network users can use. The CNE has implemented the GSFC POPMail with these two goals in mind.
Open standards based is a critical aspect.
Most people do not want to use three or four different e-mail packages to communicate with colleagues who use different computers. They want to use one that operates regardless of the network systems. POPMail lets you exchange E-mail with mainframes, workstations, and personal computers. POPMail not only can talk to a variety of computers, but it can allow you to communicate with a very large audience at one time. POPMail uses either the POP2 or POP3 protocol to communicate between POPMail and the mail server.