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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. --Dean -- Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service 617 344 9000
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