[80537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP AUTH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Tue May 3 14:40:07 2005
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200505021221.IAA15784@sigma.nrk.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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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