Re: Question on RFC1460 (POP3)
Mark Crispin <MRC@panda.com> Mon, 19 September 1994 23:10 UTC
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Subject: Re: Question on RFC1460 (POP3)
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It should also be pointed out that this sort of facility is provided in IMAP4, which is presently at Proposed Standard status. The primary advantage of POP3 over IMAP4 is that it is a (much) simpler protocol. If creeping featurism was allowed in POP3, pretty soon you would have a protocol as complex as IMAP4 but without IMAP4's advantage of being designed with this in mind from the start. You can find the IMAP4 document on any internet-drafts server, or you can read RFC1176 for a description of the earlier IMAP2 protocol.
- Question on RFC1460 (POP3) Cam Clarke
- Re: Question on RFC1460 (POP3) John Gardiner Myers
- Re: Question on RFC1460 (POP3) Cam Clarke
- Re: Question on RFC1460 (POP3) Steve Dorner
- Re: Question on RFC1460 (POP3) Mark Crispin