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RFC 1081 Commands

As soon a connection is established, the client will be greeted by a success string, usually containing the name and version of the server software, and it enters the first stage of a POP3 connection: the AUTHORIZATION state.

In this first state, there are only three possible commands:

The TRANSACTION state implements the following commands:

The following optional commands are also defined. The RFC states they can be left out of a particular implementation:


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Gunnar Wolf
2001-03-12