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/...