SMTP AUTH
Dean Anderson
dean at av8.com
Tue May 3 18:34:22 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2 May 2005, David Lesher wrote:
> Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> >
> > Better yet, try to name 16 mail clients people _actually use_ which
> > DON'T, other than MUA-only programs like mailx and mutt with no SMTP
> > support at all. When I worked at a mediumish sized hosting company with
> > probably well over 100k mail users, I can't _ever_ recall hearing about
> > a complaint of a customer using a mail client that didn't support SMTP
> > auth.
Where are all these ISPs requiring SMTP AUTH. I don't see them, anywhere.
This same story was given about Pop-before-SMTP in 1997. Supposedly,
"everyone did it", but only a few small companies actually did it.
--Dean
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