SMTP & POP3 - A workshop transcript & some links

SMTP & POP3 - A workshop transcript & some links

> I have to write a mail server(without using any components available in market)from scratch in Java.But I don't have any idea how I can implement SMTP and POP3 protocols in Java.Can you tell me how should I proceed?

Sometime back I gave an online workshop on these protocols which you
can find at: http://www.geocities.com/caljug/archive/20000305.htm

Protocols description:

SMTP

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc821.txt

Post Office Protocol Version 3

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/std/std53.txt
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1957.txt (Old version)
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt (Implementation notes)