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Date:      Sat, 02 May 1998 18:51:01 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk>
Cc:        "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com>, "Javier Henderson" <javier@kjsl.com>, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SMTP vs Spam 
Message-ID:  <9903.894149461@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 21:02:12 BST." <3.0.5.32.19980502210212.008f63f0@stingray.ivision.co.uk> 

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Manar Hussain wrote in message ID
<3.0.5.32.19980502210212.008f63f0@stingray.ivision.co.uk>:
> ISPs can set things so that only those connecting via them can send email -
> the kind of company you are talking about can't. What such companies can do
> is detect when you *collect* mail via pop on their server (you *can't* send
> mail via pop) and work out from this what machine you are using and then
> allow this machine (for a period of time) to send mail out via their mail
> server. I think this is what's happening in your case.

Err. You can send e-mail via POP3. XTND XMIT is the command, and is
implimented in QPopper and Eudora I believe. I am not aware of any
other POP servers that have XTND XMIT....

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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