On 27 Dec 2000, 3:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is esmtp?
SMTP with service extensions (Extensible Simple Mail Transport
Protocol).
Beginning with RFC 1869 and those later following, there were about 4
RFCs that added various extensions to the SMTP protocol.
For our purposes on this list, we are just referring to one aspect --
that being where you are required to authenticate yourself by sending
your account password to the ESMTP server. Previously, SMTP did not
require a password. No matter if you had an account or not, your mail
would relay through an smtp server. This liberal use of the SMTP
server is changing around the world as providers try to combat spammers
from freely using their mail servers to relay their spam. In some
cases, we are now required to "Pop First" authenticate ourselves prior
to sending mail, which verifies we have an account with the service. A
better, albeit more expensive method, is to authenticate with our
password using one of the extensions of ESMTP. Hence, we find some of
our remote pop3 services opting for this type of authentication.
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
