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Re: Changes to POP3

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From: Claire
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:00
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On 13 Apr, in article <x7pvilzwtk.fsf@renard.watching.org>
     jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk "James R Grinter" wrote:

JG> jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk (James R Grinter) writes:
JG> > (The observant amongst you will notice that 'post' is running different
JG> > software than MMDF:)
JG> 
JG> to add additional info (which I noticed later when looking at
JG> something else), two of the 'post' systems are running different
JG> software, two are still running something looking like MMDF.

yup, the difft software they are running appears to be EXIM:
these are the machines known as pepper.mail.demon.net

when pepper was purely a test system, it worked fine.
Now that it's been rolled out, it had developed an unpleasant
habit of responding to an RSET with 503, which AFAICS is
in breach of RFC 821.

Work-around time again :(

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From: cl$9804$v@siberia.demon.co.uk (Claire)
Subject: Re: Changes to POP3
Date: 1998/04/13
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