Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:50:44 -0800 From: "Majid Almassari" <majid@ibroadcast.net> To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" <tforrest@mcs.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: POP for FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <014a01bf2ed9$938c7560$0e91ddd1@balfourplace.com> References: <199911141944.NAA34325@Mailbox.mcs.net>
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Cucipop does support POP3, you can install it from the ports. Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP. Systems Administrator. iBroadcast, Inc. (206) 223-5540 http://www.ibroadcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM <tforrest@mcs.net> To: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 11:44 AM Subject: Re: POP for FreeBSD ? > Okay, let me rephrase my question. Does Qpopper support the POP3 > extensions that allow me to send mail? If it does not, which ones do? > There have to be some out there as MCS uses one. I've tried to figure > out which one they use (short of emailing postmaster) with no luck. > > tnks. > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:05:23 -0600 (CST), Alex Charalabidis wrote: > > >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 > > > > > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net > http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest > And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: > Happiness Is Seeing Your Mother-in-law on a Milk Carton > > PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 5762 A3CC 8EA5 8542 9666 222B 61A9 2558 > > > > > ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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