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Article #6481Re: Advantages of POP3 over SMTP Mail
From: Jim Shaffer, Jr.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:14
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:14
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In article <364.6677T1342T1366@kncowans.demon.co.uk> kevin@kncowans.demon.co.uk (K.N.Cowans) writes: > What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a POP3 mail feed instead of > SMTP. The advantage is that mail can be addressed to your ISP instead of to your own machine. If you have a static address, this doesn't matter. If you have a dynamic address, on the other hand, it's *essential*. > Also, does anybody know how much it costs to set up a POP3 mail account on > Demon. In the U.S., POP3 seems to be a standard feature. But then, everybody has switched to PPP and dynamic connections. -- * From the disk of: | jshaffer@mail.csrlink.net | "there's a hell of Jim Shaffer, Jr. | // | a good universe 37 Brook Street | Watch this space: // | next door; let's go" Montgomery, PA 17752 | sig under construction \\// | (e.e. cummings)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nuclear.microserve.net!news From: jshaffer@mail.csrlink.net (Jim Shaffer, Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking,demon.ip.support Subject: Re: Advantages of POP3 over SMTP Mail Date: Sun, 14 Apr 96 14:14:53 Organization: ->POEE<-, Carlos Allende cabal Message-ID: <19960414.7A041D8.D2A6@localhost.UUCP> References: <364.6677T1342T1366@kncowans.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pmwill2_29.csrlink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-NewsSoftware: GRn 2.1 Feb 19, 1994