From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 11:49:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.actllc.com (mail.actllc.com [207.149.95.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869FC14BC2 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:49:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from majid@ibroadcast.net) Received: from malmassa (sales1.ibroadcast.net [209.221.145.14] (may be forged)) by mail.actllc.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA25644; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:39:08 -0800 Message-ID: <014a01bf2ed9$938c7560$0e91ddd1@balfourplace.com> From: "Majid Almassari" To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <199911141944.NAA34325@Mailbox.mcs.net> Subject: Re: POP for FreeBSD ? Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:50:44 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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