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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