From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 11: 5:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDBF14A05 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05459; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:05:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:05:23 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: POP for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <199911141826.NAA58036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote, > > On this thread - does Qpopper allow one to send using authenticated > > POP3? My shell provider - mcs.net shut off SMTP relaying quite some > > time ago. I was told by one of the head gurus to switch my email > > client to POP3 for sending (as MCS is not my internet provider). This > > has worked great as it only accepts mail from me if I put my username > > and password in (apparently, this feature is not well known, because > > even the tech support guys at mcs.net argued with me for 10 minutes (on > > my dime) that you cannot send with POP3 - I said "I've been doing it > > for months"). > > I guess you already heard this, but: > > You cannot sent mail with POP3. > > The guys on mcs.net are right. POP3 protocol has no standards for > sending email. > This is repeated in RFC 2449. It would also assume the MUA has the capability of changing protocols or port numbers at will (which many do not). Anyway, if I wanted my users to send mail through POP3, I wouldn't be telling them to use an SMTP server like pretty much everyone else in the world. Consider a mailserver with SMTP AUTH support (sendmail 8.10?) rather than some oddball POP3 hack. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message