SMTP AUTH

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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