atom feed10 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] Re: pop-before-smtp
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Mark ConstableJul 14, 2002 6:28 am 
Sam VarshavchikJul 14, 2002 7:31 am 
Randall ShawJul 14, 2002 8:09 am 
Jesse KeatingJul 14, 2002 10:19 am 
Sam VarshavchikJul 14, 2002 10:22 am 
Alexander SkwarJul 14, 2002 1:37 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJul 14, 2002 2:14 pm 
Richard JohnsonJul 14, 2002 2:31 pm 
f. Andrew LawtonJul 15, 2002 5:52 am 
f. Andrew LawtonJul 15, 2002 5:55 am 
Subject:[courier-users] Re: pop-before-smtp
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Jul 14, 2002 10:22:41 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Randall Shaw writes:

I doubt you would get much help from the courier developers. They think there is no room for extremely useful backward compability with slightly older than new email clients. Instead they wish to force upon the world, the use of new esmtp clients which barely work correctly with esmtp. If

Complete nonsense. Outlook Express is a "new" esmtp client? Netscape/Mozilla is a "new" esmtp client? Eudora is a "new" esmtp client? Mulberry is a "new" esmtp client?

happen under the current management of courier. So you best bet is (if its not too late) move to Qmail, and only use courier as IMAP secondary support.

Really? Qmail's POP3 server supports POP-before-SMTP?

Authenticated SMTP is now supported by every mail client worth mentioning. The time for POP-before-SMTP hacks is long gone.

-- Sam