[80497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP AUTH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon May 2 08:21:41 2005
X-Original-To: wb8foz@panix.com
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 08:21:53 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <20050502055118.GF16704@mitch.veggiechinese.net> from "Will Yardley" at May 01, 2005 10:51:18 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
Well, if someone knows a program for the Treo 6xx that does
SMTP-Auth w/APOP....I'm all ears... (& over SSL would be a big
plus...)
It's no longer sufficient to look merely at *nix, Mac and oh yea,
M$ platforms when counting beans..
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