rfc-1339

Remote Mail Checking Protocol

S. Dorner, P. Resnick
date1992-06 streamLegacy statusEXPERIMENTAL pages6 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1339 doi10.17487/RFC1339
This RFC defines a protocol to provide a mail checking service to be used between a client and server pair. Typically, a small program on a client workstation would use the protocol to query a server in order to find out whether new mail has arrived for a specified user. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.