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General Info
WP-ORG provides a fully operational POP3 service, using WP-ORG fractional T1 connection to the internet. A POP3 service or mailbox lets you retrieve email from our servers using any standard Internet Email software such as:
- Netscape Mail or Communicator
- Microsoft Internet Mail, Outlook, or Exchange
- Eudora Lite or Pro
- Pegasus
- Any others that support POP3!
You will enjoy the following features of our POP3 mailbox:
- Unlimited POP3 storage space
- Unlimited storage time
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How to establish your POP3 account? You can either contact your class moderator or contact us at Pop-User-Owner@West-Point.Org. |
Established User
| Mail Configuration | Setting |
| Mail Server user name | wpXXXXX, where XXXXX is Grad's Cullum number |
| Outgoing Mail (SMTP) | argon.west-point.org |
| Incoming Mail (POP3) | argon.west-point.org |
| Set Password | http://www.west-point.org/passwd |
We have a "POP before SMTP" protocol using the Sendmail program. What this means to you, using Argon as your SMTP server, is that you must check for new email messages prior to trying to send any email. For most, this follows normal routine, will be transparent and will not cause any undue headaches. This is how POP before SMTP works: When you log onto the server and check your mail, the server notes the IP address from which the connection was made. The server will permit you to retrieve and send mail from that IP address for 15 minutes following each authentication (mail check). When you check your mail, you are authenticated as a valid user by the POP daemon. Your IP address is put into an "authenticated" file for 15 minutes. When you go to send mail, the sendmail daemon looks in this file for your IP number and, if it finds it, it lets you relay (send your message). After 15 minutes of inactivity with the POP daemon, your IP address is removed. However, if the timeout is set for 15 minutes and your mail client checks For new mail every 5 minutes, you will always be authenticated. After all that explanation, the two things to remember in this spam necessitated new world order are the following:
- Always check for mail before attempting to send mail.
- Set your email client to check for new mail at less than 15-minute intervals.
We have instituted procedures to block spam from sites that fail to maintain acceptable use policies. The current blocking list can be viewed here.
