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Article #670Re: !!!---How do they do that: SMTP & POP3---???
From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
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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?
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
Tony Blair's New Labour: The Windows'95 of Political Parties
(c/w Plug'n'Pray and a pretence of offering object-orientation)
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Subject: Re: !!!---How do they do that: SMTP & POP3---???
Date: 1997/01/31
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