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        RFC 1734:

        Title:      POP3 AUTHentication command
        Author:     J. Myers
        Mailbox:    jgm+@cmu.edu
        Pages:      5
        Characters: 8,499
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1734.txt


This document describes the optional AUTH command, for indicating an
authentication mechanism to the server, performing an authentication
protocol exchange, and optionally negotiating a protection mechanism
for subsequent protocol interactions.  The authentication and
protection mechanisms used by the POP3 AUTH command are those used by
IMAP4.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute