Re: SMTP AUTH

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:34:22PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> 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.

        Depends on your idea of small, I saw over 100k-250k user dial-isps
using systems such as this.  not sure if that qualifies.  

        it's all about the perspective that people have, we all have
varying scopes, some smaller than others.

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