Here's the original question:
> Dear Sun-Managers:
>
> I have been asked to implement a POP server on one or more of my
> SPARCs to serve various PC-based mail clients. I know next to
> nothing about this protocol.
>
> Can anyone provide a pointer to a good tutorial type resource for
> learning the basics of POP with emphasis on administration?
And here are the responses:
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> Below is the README file from the POP source at Berkeley site. Download
> from their and the docs are fairly straightforward. This protocol
> typically used port 110 and is accessed by the PC users ( MAC or PC )
> running an appliction like Eudora
> .
> .
> .
> The Post Office Protocol Server: Installation Guide
> .
> .
> .
> How to Obtain the Server
>
> The POP server is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.CC.Berkeley.EDU
> (128.32.136.9, 128.32.206.12). It is in two files in the pub directory:
> a compressed tar file popper-version.tar.Z and a Macintosh StuffIt archive
> in BinHex format called MacPOP.sit.hqx.
> Judi Connelly
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> E-mail: cjudi@nesmgr.nlm.nih.gov
> Systems Administrator, Network Engineering Section
> National Library of Medicine
> --------
> " In admiring the sunset, we do not yet deduct the rounding
> pictoral powers of the eye. " -R.W. Emerson
I downloaded this package and it was exactly what I needed.
It contained information and easily-compiled and installed
source code.
Thanks Judi!
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> Roger,
>
> An approach would be to purchase sun's selectmail for windows,
> a pc product.
> The single user price is $135, but includes a sun-built pop server for sun os.
>
> smm
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> Try this locations:
>
> http://www.cac.washington.edu:1180/pine/faq/index.html
> http://www.cac.washington.edu:1180/pine/toc.html
>
> Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC-822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, and
> NNTP) and runs on Unix and MS-DOS/Windows.
>
> There is a page about POP and IMAP comparisons. If you dont have a browser,
> use the ftp (same site).
>
> Regards.
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Roger "Being politically correct means always having to say you're
sorry." Spaulding
Network System Administrator
Ramtron International Corporation
1850 Ramtron Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
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(719) 481-7049
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