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Article #603Re: !!!---How do they do that: SMTP & POP3---???
From: David Buckley
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <854704924snz@dsl.co.uk> bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) writes:
> In article <32F115E8.686760A5@compuserve.com>
> 100334.712@compuserve.com "Dmitri Barsoukov" writes:
>
> > How do they combine these two protocoles?
> > Is POP reading from pipe?
> > Is it all possible by address rewriting rules?
>
> So far as we can guess, the POP3 mailbox is created on-the-fly when one
> connects to the server, and stuffed with items that are in the SMTP mail
> queue, presumably by linking to the files in the spool directory.
>
> Clever isn't it?
Funnily enough, I have a modified ka9q pop3serv.c that works in exactly
that manner! I was going to use it for some very serious mail purposes.
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