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!POP Version 0.98
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!POP is a freeware POP3 mail transport for use with Freenet/Acorn TCP/IP.
It will fetch EMAIL from one or more POP mailboxes and can also send outgoing
EMAIL (using SMTP).
POP is only a transport - unless you are a massochist you will also need
some mail management/reading software. Newsbase and TTFN are recommended.
!POP stores its mailboxes in standard formats, so other packages may work.
Note that a few internet providers - most notably Demon - don't support POP3.
For these providers you need a 'full' SMTP implementation such as Stuart
Brodie's FreeSMTP.
(c) Daniel Pead 1996
See !POP.!Help for full instructions, terms and conditions.
Release Notes
-------------
0.98 is an interim release to fix a couple of bugs. A newer version, which
tackles several peoples 'wish-list' features, is in the pipeline.
Recent Fixes
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* 0.98
Removed 'BASIC -quit' line from !Run file which was giving VPROTECT the
collywobbles and causing all files to be closed when !POP was run. That bug
caused hair loss in at least 3 people!
Hopefully fixed bug which caused POP to munch its way through all the free
sockets if it failed to connect to the SMTP server. (Thanks to Stuart Brodie
for pointing out that little goof).
* 0.97b
Corrected bug in 0.93/4/5 which caused long outgoing SMTP messages to fail.
* 0.97 and before:
Removed space between ":" and "<" in SMTP commands "RCPT TO:<username>" etc.
which apparently upsets some servers.
Added POP$Kludges system variable. Set POP$Kludges to "T" to use "TOP <n> 1"
instead of "TOP <n> 0" if your POP server dislikes it.
Corrected bug in 0.92 which caused SMTP to fail with servers which gave
multiline responses on initial sign-on.
Possible Problems
-----------------
!POP assumes that your EMAIL user name is also vaild as a RISC-OS filename. If
it is something like "fred.bloggs" then you will have problems, and must change
the 'Incoming mail file' setting, and replace the '*' (which normally gets
replaced by the user name) with a suitable file name. If you have multiple
users then this means that their mail gets merged into a single mailbox
(although you may be able to sort it out with a Newsbase filter). The next
version of POP will let you specify a seperate mail file name for each user.
The outgoing SMTP side doesn't deal too intelligently with messages that are
rejected by the server - in some cases it will just keep trying to send them.
It should really bounce them back to the sender. Watch this space...
The timeouts used by POP are a bit impatient for some more sluggish server.
user configuable timeout settings coming Real Soon Now!
If you choose to 'leave mail on server' then you may find the old messages keep
getting downloaded each time you check... !POP detects previously read messages
using a method specific to the Berkeley UNIX POP server, which is common but
not universal.
The file !POP.!RunImT is a replacement for !Runimage which logs EVERYTHING to
the log file and may be useful for bug hunting.
You can use !POP in conjuntion with ANT Marcel by setting the incoming mail
file to "Inet:Spool.mail.default". Remove the "GET" line from !InetSuite.
Internet.files.!Inetmail. !POP won't accept outgoing mail from Marcel, but you
can continue to use ANT's SMTP sender. Support for outgoing messages from
Marcel is on the 'To Do' list...