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Re: Mail Questions

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From: Ge' Weijers
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 1988 08:14
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In article <129@chiron.UUCP>, jon@chiron.UUCP (Jon L. Griffeth) writes:
> 2. I'm also developing a mail system between numerous PC's and a central
>    UNIX host.   I've heard about a mail server called 'POPS'.  Does anyone
>    know where I can get information concerning this?

POP stands for Post Office Protocol and is a protocol from the Arpa suite.
It is included with the MH mail system. It enables a host on an ethernet
(although a special login could probably be used too) to download
mail from a host with the POP server.
-- 
Ge' Weijers, Informatics dept., Nijmegen University, the Netherlands
UUCP: {uunet!,}mcvax!kunivv1!hobbit!ge
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Message-ID: <294@hobbit.sci.kun.nl>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ivv1!hobbit!ge
References: <129@chiron.UUCP>

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From: ge@hobbit.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Mail Questions
Summary: POP
Message-ID: <294@hobbit.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 7 Jul 88 08:14:33 GMT
References: <129@chiron.UUCP>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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