Noel Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It might also be attractive to offer an additional "mail notification"
>> service that isn't quite so expensive. It's not hard to teach a mail
>> server how to send zephyrgrams upon mail delivery, for instance. It
>> might be entertaining today to figure out how to use ICQ or "instant
>> messanger" or whatever today.
> RFC1339 Remote Mail Checking Protocol. S. Dorner, P. Resnick. June 1992.
> (Format: TXT=13115 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
We implemented that here on a smaller scale as part of our modifications
to our Unix environment so that our Unix users could continue to use their
regular mail clients and remain mostly unaware that they were now using
POP rather than a local mail spool. It's completely unauthenticated, but
it's very light-weight and worked pretty well for what we wanted to do
with it (although we extended the protocol minorly).
I'm personally not really worried about the unauthenticated part, as
whether or not someone has e-mail is something that was traditionally
exposed via finger anyway, but YMMV.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
