Use "pop3" as the POP service name on all platforms,

instead of using "pop" on Unix and "pop3" on Windows NT.  "pop3"
has been the standard service name since RFC 1340 was published in
July 1992, so I think it's safe to start using it by default.

diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog
index f036480180e086178e750bcac7c5a4eafcbecd90..51a5c307e472c5466865ae5d42e0eaef70658205 100644 (file)
--- a/lib-src/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1999-10-11  Jonathan I. Kamens  <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
+
+       * pop.c: Use "pop3" as the POP service name on all platforms,
+       instead of using "pop" on Unix and "pop3" on Windows NT.  "pop3"
+       has been the standard service name since RFC 1340 was published in
+       July 1992, so I think it's safe to start using it by default.
+
 1999-09-27  Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>
 
        * make-docfile.c (scan_lisp_file): Fix typo causing infloop.

diff --git a/lib-src/pop.c b/lib-src/pop.c
index 69e6e465234f575934b4defaa12fd368c32b2863..57a5b197b0b5158e05c5a1ca24d5d26b4a4e3004 100644 (file)
--- a/lib-src/pop.c
+++ b/lib-src/pop.c
@@ -152,11 +152,7 @@ static char *find_crlf _P((char *, int));
 #define ERROR_MAX 80           /* a pretty arbitrary size */
 #define POP_PORT 110
 #define KPOP_PORT 1109
-#ifdef WINDOWSNT
 #define POP_SERVICE "pop3"     /* we don't want the POP2 port! */
-#else
-#define POP_SERVICE "pop"
-#endif
 #ifdef KERBEROS
 #define KPOP_SERVICE "kpop"
 #endif