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Re: Multiple users on POP account ??

#5936
From: Angus Mann
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 05:47
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On 24-Mar-96 19:51:11 James Sleeman <j_slee00@tpnet.co.nz> wrote:
>Hiya all,
>	I want to do something probably a little unusual.  I want to be
>able to have multiple seperat users on a pop account, why??  Well it's
>simple, I can't afford to be online 24 hours a day to the net for an SMTP
>connection, and I am not able to have a UUCP account (because no-body aound
>here offers it), but I run a BBS and want to be able to offer my users an
>Email address.  I know that it probably is very difficult to do and quite
>unusal, but it would be good if I could offer my users email access thourgh
>my POP account (I mean seperate email here, not all in one lump, that would
>be easy).  I run a DLG BBS system on an A3000.
>SUrely it is possible ???

The whole point of POP3 is for part-time dialups from individuals. That's why
BBS programs generally only include UUCP importing utils...

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From: amann@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Angus Mann)
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Subject: Re: Multiple users on POP account ??
Date: 29 Mar 96 16:47:19 +1100
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