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** [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
** Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:31 AM
** To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
** Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Pop before smtp
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**
** >I understand that there is a free third party utility that
** allows Imail to
** >do Pop-before-smtp. Anyone know anything about this?
**
** no, Imail supports SMTP AUTH and APOP. with CRAM-MD5 and LOGIN
**
** What does POP-before-SMTP bring to the dance and what mail
** clients support
** POP-before-SMTP ?
Any mail client that supports POP3 and SMTP.
To implement POP-before-SMTP, all work is done on the server. It's
transparent to the client (as long as it checks mail before sending
mail).
What happens is this:
-User POPs their mail
-POP3 daemon writes out the IP address to an access list
-SMTP daemon uses that access list to authorize client access
-some other (perhaps POP or SMTP) will clean out the access list to
remove old entries
It's a rather simple kludge to allow roaming support for older clients
that do not support SMTP Authentication.
I don't expect that imail will support this now, or ever. Ipswitch has
shown themselves quite incapable of keeping up with other platforms in
terms of features and interoperability.
-Troy
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