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- !POP Version 0.98
- ====
-
- !POP is a freeware POP3 mail transport for use with Freenet/Acorn TCP/IP.
- It will fetch EMAIL from one or more POP mailboxes and can also send outgoing
- EMAIL (using SMTP).
-
- POP is only a transport - unless you are a massochist you will also need
- some mail management/reading software. Newsbase and TTFN are recommended.
- !POP stores its mailboxes in standard formats, so other packages may work.
-
- Note that a few internet providers - most notably Demon - don't support POP3.
- For these providers you need a 'full' SMTP implementation such as Stuart
- Brodie's FreeSMTP.
-
- (c) Daniel Pead 1996
-
- See !POP.!Help for full instructions, terms and conditions.
-
- Release Notes
- -------------
-
- 0.98 is an interim release to fix a couple of bugs. A newer version, which
- tackles several peoples 'wish-list' features, is in the pipeline.
-
-
- Recent Fixes
- ------------
-
- * 0.98
-
- Removed 'BASIC -quit' line from !Run file which was giving VPROTECT the
- collywobbles and causing all files to be closed when !POP was run. That bug
- caused hair loss in at least 3 people!
-
- Hopefully fixed bug which caused POP to munch its way through all the free
- sockets if it failed to connect to the SMTP server. (Thanks to Stuart Brodie
- for pointing out that little goof).
-
- * 0.97b
-
- Corrected bug in 0.93/4/5 which caused long outgoing SMTP messages to fail.
-
- * 0.97 and before:
-
- Removed space between ":" and "<" in SMTP commands "RCPT TO:<username>" etc.
- which apparently upsets some servers.
-
- Added POP$Kludges system variable. Set POP$Kludges to "T" to use "TOP <n> 1"
- instead of "TOP <n> 0" if your POP server dislikes it.
-
- Corrected bug in 0.92 which caused SMTP to fail with servers which gave
- multiline responses on initial sign-on.
-
- Possible Problems
- -----------------
-
- !POP assumes that your EMAIL user name is also vaild as a RISC-OS filename. If
- it is something like "fred.bloggs" then you will have problems, and must change
- the 'Incoming mail file' setting, and replace the '*' (which normally gets
- replaced by the user name) with a suitable file name. If you have multiple
- users then this means that their mail gets merged into a single mailbox
- (although you may be able to sort it out with a Newsbase filter). The next
- version of POP will let you specify a seperate mail file name for each user.
-
- The outgoing SMTP side doesn't deal too intelligently with messages that are
- rejected by the server - in some cases it will just keep trying to send them.
- It should really bounce them back to the sender. Watch this space...
-
- The timeouts used by POP are a bit impatient for some more sluggish server.
- user configuable timeout settings coming Real Soon Now!
-
- If you choose to 'leave mail on server' then you may find the old messages keep
- getting downloaded each time you check... !POP detects previously read messages
- using a method specific to the Berkeley UNIX POP server, which is common but
- not universal.
-
- The file !POP.!RunImT is a replacement for !Runimage which logs EVERYTHING to
- the log file and may be useful for bug hunting.
-
- You can use !POP in conjuntion with ANT Marcel by setting the incoming mail
- file to "Inet:Spool.mail.default". Remove the "GET" line from !InetSuite.
- Internet.files.!Inetmail. !POP won't accept outgoing mail from Marcel, but you
- can continue to use ANT's SMTP sender. Support for outgoing messages from
- Marcel is on the 'To Do' list...
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