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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:08:55 -0400
From:      Travis Mikalson <bofh@TerraNova.net>
To:        Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ERR POP EOF console errors
Message-ID:  <3357E2E7.42F2@TerraNova.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970418162548.10436D-100000@ns2.harborcom.net>

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Bradley Dunn wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Travis Mikalson wrote:
> 
> > The "ERR: "auth" unknown command" is caused by older versions of
> > Micros**t Internet Mail.
> > Someone thought 'auth' was a POP command over there at Microsoft..
> > *shrug*
> 
> Ummm...it is. See RFC1734.
> 
> pbd

Ok, then why does qpopper 2.2 not like it?
MS Internet Mail used to do _something_ wrong with the auth command
according to that particular error message qpopper generates..

Is one of the most popular POP3 servers in use today not RFC1734
compliant or was MS Internet Mail wocked?
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