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Re: Talking to a POP server.



On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Scott Thompson wrote:
>Hello once again list. I am currently writing an online mail service similar
>to hotmail or yahoo mail. I have all the elements in place except for one.
>In C, how do I talk to a POP server? Is there something like 'sendmail' that
>I use to easily send all my mail messages, but for receiving mail from a pop
>server?

The following command explained it quite clearly for me when I was writing 
the POP part of my Postal package.

zless /usr/doc/doc-rfc/all-included-rfcs/rfc1939.txt.gz

If you have any further questions after running that command feel free to ask 
me via private email.


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