The server core is derived from the general server class. It handles only the details of the POP3 connection and protocol. The task of authenticating a user attempting a login is done in here, but the data used by the process is retrieved from an external object obeying the interface as described in userdbBase and specified to the core via the option pop3Server:userdb. Access to the messages stored an user is mediated through another external object, its handle given to the core by pop3Server:storage and derived from popServerStorageBase
Example implementations of a user database and a storage subsystem are aDB and mbox.
They were used to build apps/popsy, a complete small scale pop server.
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