On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, The Little Prince wrote: > i agree with the SMTP AUTH statements. be aware, if you're on a system > that uses Norton AV, this has a habit of not letting AUTH work with the > defaults.
That's because Norton interferes with the normal data path by seting itself up as a pop3/smtp server and redirecting all local client traffic to itself, while talking to the remote servers. Quite frankly, Norton AV is crap. It inconveniences users, so they bypass it. You're better off using F-Prot or similar (which is also significantly cheaper). Not to mention that Norton are spammers and so are McAfee.
