Re: [cobalt-users] Outlook Express

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert G. Fisher" wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:18:13AM +0200, Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:
> > Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > It was used before "POP-before-Relay" became popular, and (I think)
> > still beats it in some ways (it's easy to use for the pop-user) - but
> > it isn't supported by most mail clients. The Right Thing (TM) today
> > is to use SMTP AUTH.

In all fairness, I didn't write that, Jens did.

> Which sadly, is still not widely supported in mail clients to my
> knowledge.  I hate to say this, but the only GUI MUA I know of
> that supports SMTP authentication is MS Outlook & Outlook Express.

I'd like to see it more widely implemented myself.  Currently I just
don't allow anyone outside our network (or ISP customers, in other
words) to use our smtp.

Jeff
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