Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Brian Mastenbrook writes:
> Seconded, but replace POP with IMAP. I'd think writing IMAP would be easier
> anyway.

IMAP3      Interactive Mail Access Protocol                        1203
POP3       Post Office Protocol - Version 3                    1939  53
-r--r--r--    1      33690 Feb  8  1991 /local/doc/rfc/rfc1203.txt.gz
-r--r--r--    1      12157 May 10  1996 /local/doc/rfc/rfc1939.txt.gz

I would say that POP3 is almost tree times simplier than IMAP3...

Did you  ever try to talk IMAP3  to a server yourself?  And POP3? Even
SMTP is more complex than POP3!


=> telnet pop.afaa.asso.fr pop3
   Trying 195.114.85.131...
   Connected to pop.afaa.asso.fr.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   +OK POP3 hermes.afaa.asso.fr v7.64 server ready
=> USER pascal
   +OK User name accepted, password please
=> PASS XXXXXXXX
   +OK Mailbox open, 2 messages
=> LIST
   +OK Mailbox scan listing follows
   1 4422
   2 4096
   .
=> RETR 1
   +OK 4422 octets
   Delivered-To: [email protected]
   Received: by cerbere.afaa.asso.fr (Email Server, from userid 8)
       id 72E4B2003; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:09:17 +0200 (CEST)
   ...
   Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:09:56 +0200
   From: xxxxx@xxxxx
   To: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx
   Subject: xxxxxxxxxx

   aaa aaaaaa aaaaaaa aaa aaaaaaaaa aaaa aaa aaaaaa aaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa
   aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaa a  a  aaaaaaaaa a         a  aaaaaaaa
   aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
   
   -- 
   aaaaa aaaaaa a
   .
=> QUIT
   +OK Sayonara
   Connection closed by foreign host.


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