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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.emeraldis.com!david From: david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Full-featured POP3 server for BSDI Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 23:12:02 GMT Organization: Emerald Internet Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4tm5p5$knq@jade.emeraldis.com> References: <31FA176A.34CF@popd.ix.netcom.com> <x7u3ur2968.fsf@kci.kciLink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: david.emeraldis.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 In article <x7u3ur2968.fsf@kci.kciLink.com>, khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera) wrote: > >>>>> "CW" == Charles Wolfe <cwolfe@popd.ix.netcom.com> writes: > > CW> Can anyone recommend (or does anyone know of) a full-featured, > CW> supported POP3 server for BSDI? Our e-mail service is currently > CW> running on sendmail under BSDI 2.x, and we are running into some > CW> strange encoding/decoding problems, especially on our non-unix > CW> dialup clients. > > I don't belive that a POP server does any encoding/decoding. That > would be something up to your mail client. POP only delivers the > contents of mailbox to the client to interpret. That is true. The POP server does not handle any of the encoding/decoding. This is all done by the mail client, such as Eudora. Just make sure that the mail clients involved are MIME compliant, or support whatever encoding method you are trying to use (i.e. uuencode, binhex, etc...). As for the POP3 server. The POP server shipped with BSDI *is* a POP3 server. Just take a look at the man page on popper. Type: man popper This will tell you exactly what you want to know. David G. Cannon