From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 9:13:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA1A37B402 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5DCB21743E; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:13:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:13:34 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Bill Moran Cc: Drew Sanford , "Hudson, Henrik H." , "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: qpopper Message-ID: <20010116111334.A34019@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Bill Moran , Drew Sanford , "Hudson, Henrik H." , "'questions@freebsd.org'" References: <3A646359.89989A21@mail.iowna.com> <20010116102024.C32412@northernbrewer.com> <3A647570.5030307@planetwe.com> <3A647DB5.D0EB69EE@mail.iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A647DB5.D0EB69EE@mail.iowna.com>; from wmoran@mail.iowna.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:58:29AM -0500 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran (wmoran@mail.iowna.com) wrote: > Drew Sanford wrote: > > > > Christopher Farley wrote: > > > > > I know Microsoft makes some nasty software, but come on! They're not > > > *that* stupid. > > > > Wanna bet?;) > > Personally, I've never called them stupid. I will, however, accuse them > of breaking protocol support in their applications in order to promote > 100% use of Microso~1 protocols & software to their potential clients. > > Let's see ... if POP3 does strange things with Outlook, the uninitiated > will fall for propaganda that it's because POP3 doesn't work right, then > we can convince everyone that they should be using Exchange servers ... > > Gee, Microso~1 has never done anything like that, have they? I think we're all in agreement that Microsoft is *evil*. But I'm still quite certain that Outlook implements the POP3 protocol pretty well, at least with respect to tracking message IDs, and preventing the repeated download of previously fetched messages. -- Christopher Farley Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message