On 31 Jul 00 at 12:26, arachne-digest wrote:
(Sam Heywood said:)
> >I can use Arachne InSight and other DOS-based email clients to access my
> free email accounts at http://www.subdimension.com and at
> http://www.telebot.com. With Arachne InSight and also with other various
> DOS email clients, I can both send and receive email through these accounts.
> These web-sites claim that they require "authenticated SMTP", whatever that
> is. Would these just be false claims?
Some mail providers will let you use their smtp hosts if you actually have
a mailbox with their service.
For example, if I send a msg from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the smtp host at
mailandnews.com refuses to accept it. If I send the same msg but my From
line contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", then m-and-n recognizes that as a
legit user and accepts the msg.
Then there are other email services that, if you first receive your mail
via pop3 (thereby supplying a password), will then let you send email with
smtp. If you don't receive first then you won't be able to send.
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