At 7:32 PM -0700 2002/08/27, Jim Hickstein wrote:
Hear, hear! I run an email-only service provider (www.imap-partners.net), and we have to help certain users over the threshold at e.g. Earthlink by permitting them to reach us on another port. This is logically ridiculous, and bound to change.
Of course, IMAP supports using an outbox on the server, and this allows you to completely by-pass SMTP. Indeed, do this over SSL/TLS, and the connection is secure and cryptographically authenticated, and you avoid the issues of whether or not port 25 is transparently proxied, etc.... -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)