Re: POP3 behavior on broken tcp connection

John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu> Wed, 25 May 1994 19:48 UTC

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From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: POP3 behavior on broken tcp connection
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Beak: Is

I would recommend adding explicit wording to the spec stating that in
the absense of a QUIT command, no changes to the permanent state of
the maildrop are made.

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