From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 16:29:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CCD1526B for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:29:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from ts8-15.kin.istar.ca ([207.216.1.126] helo=genisis) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 10QKUG-0005Mv-00; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:28:38 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990325193951.007df8a0@istar.ca> X-Sender: genisis@istar.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:39:51 -0500 To: LKentane@mweb.com From: Dru Subject: Re: Pop3 commands Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19990325184431.C1009@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F31817897069A@za12nt02.mweb.com> <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F31817897069A@za12nt02.mweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:44 PM 25/03/99 +0000, you wrote: >Langa Kentane - MWeb wrote: > >> Where can I get a complete listing of all the pop3 & smtp commands >> what a brief explanation of what they do. > >In the appropriate RFC. SMTP is defined in RFC 821 (RFC 822 is also >useful), POP3 is defined in RFCs 1939 and 1957. Download them from >your nearest RFC mirror, if you don't know the address of one, >ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/ is one example. > >-- >Ben Smithurst >ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Also, the Unix Administrator's Guide to TCP/IP published by O'Reilly (has a picture of a crab on front) is worth it's weight in gold. Has a chapter on SMTP and POP3 with their commands and examples. If you're interested, I can send you the ISBN number. Also, anyone who is interested can e-mail me in private and I'll send a copy of the "Fun with Telnet" tutorial I give to my students when I introduce them to what is really happening when you send/receive e-mail. Cheers, Dru Never smack a man who's chewin' tobacco. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message