Just a few tips for admins on MUAs configuration and usage for the 'pop3
before smtp' auth method to work well (point of view of MUA)
Davide wrote :
> Yes, 80% of MUA use this method by default
There is allways some thinks to check on the MUA and some guidelines before
it do 'pop3 before smtp' in all cases.
Example with Outlook Express 5.x :
To insure that OE allways do pop3 session before smtp session the user MUST
:
- Never select the Option 'Send mail immediatly' in the
Tools...Options...Send dialog box
(must allways be cleared because if selected OE will then do smtp session
without pop3 session when user click the send button in the 'mail' window
!!)
- User MUST simply and ALLWAYS click the Send/Receive button of main OE
window (BUT never select the 'Send All' option of this button) after click
of the Send button in the 'mail' window even if he only want to send !!
(this force OE to allways retrieve all messages present in the pop3 account
before sending any message via smtp)
Note that the Option 'Send mail immediatly' in the Tools...Options...Send
dialog box is checked by default in OE !!! So the user need to do some
(minimum) config of the MUA (very simple config in fact)
I don't have other MUA on hand at time of write of this mail but i think
other MUAs need little config check and 'well defined usage' to allways do
'pop3 before smtp'.
Francis
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Davide Libenzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Envoy� : vendredi 11 mai 2001 23:30
� : John Kielkopf
Cc : XMail Mailing list
Objet : Re: SMTP Auth
On 11-May-2001 John Kielkopf wrote:
> Well, actually, I finally got POP3 working with reverse lookup, so I no
> longer needed to provide the domain in the user field. (needed to get a
> patch from MS, part of SP2)
>
> I just finished modifying SMTPSvr.cpp to work the same, now that I'll be
> forced to use SMTP Auth... Didn't want to waste time doing it if the
> functionality was already there.
When POP3-before-SMTP will be enabled You don't need SMTP auth at all coz
80%
of MUA that I know ( 100% of Windows world ) perform mail checking before
doing
SMTP send.
- Davide
