On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:18:14 -0500,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard schwartz) wrote:
>
> > and that authentication in SMTP is only necesarry if you don't use your
> > ISPs SMTP server. (otherwise the IP should be checked)
>
> Wrong Wrong Wrong!
>
> I use my ISPs SMTP server, I dial into my ISP's
> nameserver by phoning my ISP's digital access POP phone number.
I recall that you told me that your ISP (Verio) is actually a
conglomeration of smaller ISP's. I know from the headers of your
e-mail that your dynamic IP is a dialsprint.net dialup. This
could account for the fact that you are not considered "local"
to your mailserver.
> I (that is my mail client) still must send a totally separate
> authentication sequence, as part of my SMTP dialogue with my ISPs
> server, each time I want to send mail to a user that is not a
> customer of my ISP.
All you have to do is POP-before-SMTP.
> For most of us, that means, we must
> used a mail client that knows how to issue the AUTH command, and
> complete the dialogue with acceptble encrypted password, etc.
Again, all you have to do is POP-before-SMTP. I see AUTH listed
in response to EHLO at GMX, so I assume they support it, but all
I have to do is POP-before-SMTP.
> The bad part is another protocol extension that is only supported
> by the newer, bloat-ier, MS like, mail clients.
So far, I haven't seen anyone give an example of a server that can
only be accessed using AUTH.
Howard E.
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