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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Design Notes On Fetchmail</H1>
<H3>3. IMAP is a Good Thing.</H3>
-If there were a standard IMAP equivalent of the POP3 APOP validation,
-POP3 would be completely obsolete.<P>
+Now that there is a standard IMAP equivalent of the POP3 APOP validation
+in CRAM-MD5, POP3 is completely obsolete.<P>
<H3>4. SMTP is the Right Thing</H3>
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS>