🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:41:07 +0100, Chris Weston 
<CWeston@snorter.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <928529355.14476.0.nnrp-12.d4e48b20@news.demon.co.uk>,
>Alisdair Wren <alisdair@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Chris Weston <CWeston@snorter.demon.co.uk> uttered thus:
>>>I understand ip and can write the app no problem, it's just talking to
>>>the mail server that I've never done.
>>
>>Have you read the RFCs that were suggested to you earlier today?
>
>Not in depth.

They should make sense with a quick browse. Certainly the POP3 and SMTP 
ones do.

>To be quite honest, they go into more detail than
>I need.  I am more interested in a broad outlook of how the 
>communication works, and what I need to connect to.  The detail
>that the RFCs contain will be extremely useful once I can
>put them in context.

[blatant-plug mode]

Tell you what, if you've got a PostScript reader try:
	http://www.whirlnet.demon.co.uk/mail-services.ps
or, if not, but you do have a PDF (e.g. Adobe Acrobat) reader, try:
	http://www.whirlnet.demon.co.uk/mail-services.pdf

Those might be of help if you just want a simple overview.

These are the mail services (SMTP and POP3, anyway) parts of a document 
I began to write ages ago (never got past those two and NNTP, though).
One day I might write more to it. Any comments on it so far would be
appreciated :-)

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