LAN Mail Protocols FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about LAN Mail Protocols.
This FAQ about LAN Mail Protocols
was compiled and written by John Wobus jmwobus@syr.edu
with numerous contributions by others.
01 Introduction (LAN Mail Protocols)- There are advantages to having a central server receive the ...
02 POP, POP2, POP3 (LAN Mail Protocols)- These are rather minimal and are designed to be so. The three ...
03 IMAP2, IMAP2bis, IMAP3, IMAP4, IMAP4rev1 (LAN Mail Protocols)- The IMAP family is similar to the POP family, but also gives clients ...
04 ACAP (LAN Mail Protocols)- ACAP (Application Configuration Access Protocol), formerly ...
05 IMAP vs POP (LAN Mail Protocols)- As of this writing (4/97), there are a many more POP than IMAP ...
06 DMSP (LAN Mail Protocols)- Also know as PCMAIL. Desktop computers can use this protocol to ...
07 ESMTP ETRN (LAN Mail Protocols)- ETRN, which is documented in RFC 1985, is a modified version of ...
08 Who uses these protocols? (LAN Mail Protocols)- These protocols were designed and implemented mostly ...
09 Disadvantages (LAN Mail Protocols)- There are a number of disadvantages associated with the use of ...
10 Issue of Remote Access (LAN Mail Protocols)- Modern commercial e-mail packages typically have features designed ...
11 MIME (LAN Mail Protocols)- MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a relatively ...
12 Approaches not covered by this memo (LAN Mail Protocols)- * Proprietary ...
13 LDAP (LAN Mail Protocols)- LDAP is a protocol (the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) ...
14 Java (LAN Mail Protocols)- Java is a programming language currently (1996) touted as a tool ...
15 List of Protocols and RFCs (LAN Mail)- Note: for up-to-date information on the RFCs, get an index from an ...
16 Other Sources of Information (LAN Mail Protocols)- My own
17 Capabilities of Well-known mail clients (LAN Mail Protocols)- This section covers what I've been able to find out so far about ...
18 List of Implementations (LAN Mail Protocols)- Note: http://www.etext.org/~pauls/mailclientfaq.txt has a list that ...
19 List of Implementations (LAN Mail Protocols): Some other packages for desktop systems
20 List of Implementations (LAN Mail Protocols) Key and Other Issues- (a) What are the common extensions to POP3 and which clients/...