On 30 Nov 00 at 22:19, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:08:17 -0500 (EST) >From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Arachne on autopilot/authenticated SMTP > >Maybe Arachne could call up or somehow integrate with Pegasus? Would that solve >the authenticated SMTP problem with Telebot and a few ISPs, and a few other free >mail/news services? In Heise News there was an article about authenticated SMTP >and SMTP-after-POP. Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora, Pagasus Mail >(typo for Pegasus?), and Pine were cited as supporting authenticated SMTP >(RFC 2554). I remember there was discussion about Arachne's lack of support for >authenticated SMTP. Here is the paragraph from Heise News, verbatim: > > Bereits seit MSigmarz 1999 existiert allerdings ein neuer Standard in Form .... Thomas, I am afraid that there is a misunderstanding. Many people talking of Pegasus (Mail) have in mind the Windows version. As far as I know Pegasus for Windows is still developing and may therefore implement new standards. The problem with Pegasus for DOS (Pmail) is that it was already perfect some years ago. The latest version 3.50 (February 2000) announced no substantial new features, I am still using 3.31 (1996). Pegasus for DOS offers such a rich possibility of customizing (codpage conversion, menu, mime plug-ins, adapting the message formats and file names) that there is hardly any reason to further change the programme. Its flexibility makes it a very good complement to Arachne: Arachne does the online jobs POP3 and SMTP. Pegasus is quicker and more practical for offline reading, composing, sorting. If I understand the authentication problem correctly it is related to the online business that PMail delegates to external programmes. This may be SMTPOP11, PMPOP etc, but even Arachne. But if Arachne does not solve the problem PMail will be of no help. Regards, Christof Lange - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.volny.cz/christianpeace
