SUMMARY: POP3 -- what is it and how do I get it?

From: Jose A. Fernandez (jaf@inference.com)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1992 - 02:43:10 CDT


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!



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:06:47 CDT