Larry, On this point you are correct and I think we will all agree to that. However the point that you are not considering is that she is not using a simple command line she is using a mail client that is dependant on the OS it resides on. Therefore it talks to the OS before it sends the e-mail.
I am sure just like you that if she had access to telnet into her mail server and issued the command line commands that she could send e-mail if she were running an old Apple Commodore. That is not the case. I can even take some of the old command line mail clients and make this work, like in FBSD. However when you use a graphic mail client it depends on the OS to operate and that is where the fly gets in the ointment. AL Grant GA JMC E-Media Asst. Engineer WKMS-FM Rm FA845b Fine Arts Bldg. Murray State University Murray, KY 42071 270-762-5361 On 9/20/05 9:37 PM, "Larry Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/20/05 8:33 PM, Bellwether at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> No. OS X is as different from OS 9 as cash and credit cards are different >> from each other. OS X is not just a "new style" of OS 9 currency; it's a >> *completely* different architecture. OS 9 is obsolete and no longer >> supported by Apple; it's no longer legal tender. > > We're clearly talking past each other but I'll try again. In the world of > Internet protocols, what operating system you're running is, in a properly > standards-compliant world, irrelevant. The applications involved do not care > and should not even know what operating system is being used. In fact, > neither POP3 nor SMTP have any defined means of a client to tell the server > what operating system it is or even what specific mail client it is (yes, > the mail client is frequently embedded in a header of a mail message but all > the headers are just data (and are sent following the DATA command) in an > SMTP transaction). > > As someone who runs his own mail server and has spent time doing some > debugging, I do know what I'm talking about here. The S in SMTP means Simple > and it really is and it takes all of four commands to send a message: HELO, > MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, and DATA. You can (and I have for debugging purposes) > telnet to port 25 on a server and type those by hand along with their > parameters and the data (the message with its headers) and it will work just > fine. > > -- Larry Stone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.stonejongleux.com/ > -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
