On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:34:22PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2005, David Lesher wrote:
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Better yet, try to name 16 mail clients people _actually use_ which DON'T, other than MUA-only programs like mailx and mutt with no SMTP support at all. When I worked at a mediumish sized hosting company with probably well over 100k mail users, I can't _ever_ recall hearing about a complaint of a customer using a mail client that didn't support SMTP auth.
Where are all these ISPs requiring SMTP AUTH. I don't see them, anywhere.
This same story was given about Pop-before-SMTP in 1997. Supposedly, "everyone did it", but only a few small companies actually did it.
Depends on your idea of small, I saw over 100k-250k user dial-isps using systems such as this. not sure if that qualifies. it's all about the perspective that people have, we all have varying scopes, some smaller than others. -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.