From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <008c01c31d74$9f98a9e0$e3944251@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200305181417.h4IEHf524723@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3EC7A07D.7000900@proweb.co.uk> <007801c31d72$a2741660$e3944251@insultant.net> <20030518192542.GA1174@thefrayedknot.armory.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Free Plan 9 "shell" accounts? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 21:35:21 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b0ee343a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > maybe Im going to look stupid for asking this, but whats wrong with > qmail? 4 chars ... SMTP -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol no files, no 8 bit chars, nothing but 7 bit ASCII. then we get the 150 pages of the 4 MINE (sic) rfcs and we know who the guilty are and why and it is no longer SIMPLE. POP ... Post Office Protocol -- simple IMAP ... DISASTER, it tries to be a file server but it's only dealing with mail. FTP ... File Transfer Protocol QED