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- Date: 30 JUL 92 05:03:44 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: Sanjay Kapur <SKAPUR@ccmail.sunysb.edu>
- From: Sanjay Kapur <SKAPUR@ccmail.sunysb.edu>
- Subject: Re: RFC 1339 support: Remote Mail Checking Protocol.
- Organization: State University of New York, Stony Brook
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- >From: "Ned Freed (Postmaster)" <NED@SIGURD.INNOSOFT.COM>
- >There's a limited version of the protocol that is slightly more implementable
- >in the VMS environment, but not overly so.
- >
- >If you can come up with a reasonable way to deal with these issues in the
- >VMS environment I'd love to hear about it. I had serious thoughts about
- >implementing this protocol in PMDF until I started to consider how the
- >actual implementation would have to be done.
- >
- > Ned
-
- Most users are more interested in the presence or absence of new mail and for
- them a simple check of the VMSMAIL profile should be good enough. The time
- stamps are more or less optional and I do not see any way of implementing them
- in VMS. The section "Server Implementation Notes" in RFC 1339 provides for a
- way of not implementing time stamps.
-
- The way I was thinking about this was:
-
- A client makes a request and sends the username. The server asks for the
- password (unless the ipaddress/port/maildrop triple is stored) and checks
- the SYSUAF for password and existence of account. If the account does
- not exist, zeros are sent back. If the account exists, the VMSMAIL profile is
- checked for new mail. If new mail exists or the number of records in the
- user's MAIL.MAI is more than one, an appropriate response is send back for New
- mail or Old Mail.
-
- The current POP protocol has too much overhead which includes a process
- creation and much more work on the part of the server.
-
-
- Sanjay Kapur (SK54) |Internet: Sanjay.Kapur@sunysb.edu
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