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- From: ashok@meds38956.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: POP2 vs POP3
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:42:09 GMT
- Organization: CWRU School of Medicine
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- Message-ID: <ashok.151.724426929@meds38956.cwru.edu>
- References: <vanderwal.9.724412973@rc.tudelft.nl>
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- In article <vanderwal.9.724412973@rc.tudelft.nl> vanderwal@rc.tudelft.nl (Guus van der Wal) writes:
-
- >Maybe this is a stupid question, but I am rather novice in this area.
- >
- >Are POP2 and POP3 completely different products, or is there some
- >compatibility involved.
-
- The POP3 protocol supercedes the POP2 protocol. They are incompatible.
- A POP2 server cannot service a POP3 client and vice-versa. If I remember
- correctly POP3 is described in RFC-1225.
-
- >I use POPMAIL from boombox, this came with a POP2 server.
- >This server I installed on a SUN an now I can do E-mail from my PC.
- >Works great.
- >After that I installed WINQVT on my PC. This program has a mail facility
- >too. But when I invoke it the complaint is: "Missing POP3 server".
- >Question: If I install a POP3 server, will both products work, or
- >do I have to use POP2 for POPMAIL and POP3 for WINQVT?
-
- POPmail/PC will talk to a POP3 server. At least I am certain that 2.72 and
- later versions talk to a POP3 server. Under Setup-Network-Advanced, change
- the POP port from 109 to 110.
-
- I would recommend using the UCB POP3 daemon on your SUN as WinQVT/net seems
- to interact well with it.
-
- Ashok
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- Ashok Aiyar
- Department of Biochemistry
- CWRU School of Medicine
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