Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:1078 comp.unix.questions:8028 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ivv1!hobbit!ge From: ge@hobbit.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Mail Questions Summary: POP Message-ID: <294@hobbit.sci.kun.nl> Date: 7 Jul 88 08:14:33 GMT References: <129@chiron.UUCP> Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lines: 12 In article <129@chiron.UUCP>, jon@chiron.UUCP (Jon L. Griffeth) writes: > 2. I'm also developing a mail system between numerous PC's and a central > UNIX host. I've heard about a mail server called 'POPS'. Does anyone > know where I can get information concerning this? POP stands for Post Office Protocol and is a protocol from the Arpa suite. It is included with the MH mail system. It enables a host on an ethernet (although a special login could probably be used too) to download mail from a host with the POP server. -- Ge' Weijers, Informatics dept., Nijmegen University, the Netherlands UUCP: {uunet!,}mcvax!kunivv1!hobbit!ge