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- X-RFC822-From: Jim Whitfill - Los Alamos <WHITFILL@meediv.lanl.gov>
- From: Jim Whitfill - Los Alamos <WHITFILL@meediv.lanl.gov>
- Subject: Re: RFC 1339 support: Remote Mail Checking Protocol.
- Message-ID: <712501665.841496.WHITFILL@meediv.lanl.gov>
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- We are getting multiple copies of postings; this is the 4th copy of the one
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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.
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- > > Ned
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- > 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.
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- > The way I was thinking about this was:
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- > 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.
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- >
- > Sanjay Kapur (SK54) |Internet: Sanjay.Kapur@sunysb.edu
- > Systems Staff, Computing Services, |Bitnet: SKAPUR@USB
- > State University of New York, |SPAN/HEPnet: 44132::SKAPUR
- > Stony Brook, NY 11794-2400 |Phone:+1-516 632 8029, FAX:+1-516 632 8046
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