POP Server Product Specification Sheet NetMail/3000's user-interface bundle includes a POP2 and POP3 Server for client-server electronic mail connectivity. POP2 (Post Office Protocol Version 2) and POP3 (Post Office Protocol Version 3) are Internet-designed specifications for a means of retrieving electronic mail from a "server", which accepts and holds electronic mail for you when your local machine is busy with other tasks (or off). 3k Associates' POP server can also function as a standalone e-mail server, or can be purchased as an add-on for users of our DeskLink HP OpenDesk gateway. From a users standpoint, using a POP client is identical in functionality and process to using a PC-lan based e-mail system. From the administrators standpoint though, your e-mail system is managed from the security and reliability of an HP3000 system, and doesn't even impact the user-license limitation of the HP3000 (since POP clients don't actually log onto the host). Even a small HP3000 can support hundreds or thousands of POP clients. For example, try NetScape's built-in e-mail client (which uses POP3) or Eudora (from Qualcomm). Take full advantage of the GUI interfaces with drag-and-drop capability on your PC or Mac, while your messages are stored and retrieved from the HP 3000 -- your users will never know it's not a pc file server! You get the advantage of a central, reliable, and scaleable platform from which to manage all e-mail activities. Your users get the advantages of a server that doesn't crash mysteriously, lose messages, or never get backed up. Users needn't ever log into the 3000, and many POP clients can even poll for new messages (in the background) automatically notifying the user when mail arrives. How to get it: Call, write, fax, or e-mail to any of the addresses listed at the end of this document and request a free demo, or pick up a complete working demo of our NetMail/3000 package complete with POP servers bundled in from our ftp server (ftp.3k.com) in the DEMO directory, or www server (http://www.3k.com) or our gopher server (gopher.3k.com). How POP works: The beauty of POP is that a client can use POP to retrieve mail from a server, and the user need not ever know where the mail is held, or in fact even know that mail is not already on the local machine. POP was designed to accomodate environments where local users on PCs, Macs, or workstations either didn't desire to or could not afford to run SMTP compatible servers on their individual machines. Since SMTP messages can come in at any time and it is up to the server to be "listening" for mail whenever it is sent, it makes sense to delegate this task to a system which is more able to handle this task, and typically one which is online more of the time (as opposed to your typical PC or workstation which gets turned off overnight). Electronic mail is then accepted by the server on behalf of the local user, and when the local user runs the PC based electronic mail package, any received messages are then downloaded (over the network) to the local system. There is NO logon onto the HP3000 involved, nor does the client even need to be aware that the HP3000 is actually storing their electronic mail til they retrieve it. On the HP3000 side, individual mailboxes can be configured to allow or disallow POP client access. Mailboxes are created on the host (as a normal mailbox), set up to allow POP access, and given a password to be used by the client. POP server processes are managed by the background job and incur minimal CPU impact on the host. Clients can even change their own mailbox password. We don't provide POP clients; you are free to choose any POP2 or POP3 compliant client you wish. Excellent examples are available both as public domain packages and as commercial packages. Eudora for Windows and Mac is one of the most popular packages today, available as freeware version as well as a commercial (supported) version. NetScape's Navigator package also bundles a POP3 compatible client. In addition, PCPOP and POPMail are two MSDOS based clients available in the public domain; MacPOP, MailStop, and PCPOP for the Macintosh; and others for other platforms. Several very nice commercial packages are available, including NetManage's Chameleon package and Frontier Technology's SuperTCP for Microsoft Windows. An added feature to look for is MIME compatability in your POP clients; since NetMail/3000 is MIME compatible, using a MIME compatible POP client can enable powerful multimedia data exchange capabilities. See the NetMail/3000 spec sheet or MIME file for more information. We do make several public domain pop clients available to the public via our ftp site (ftp.3k.com). 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