On 5 Feb 01 at 22:43, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 01 09:33:17
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Schwartz)
>Subject: Re: Help! Smtp authentication?
>
>Strangely, my mail transport of choice, fdsmtpop, supports only
>a smtp-before-pop mode, instead of the (usual) reverse. So I
>rigged up a batch file with a nice keyboard stuffer (stuffkey)
>to run fdsmtpop firs to access my pop server, send the popserver
>my user ID and password and then immediately log out (the keyboard
>stuffer sends ^C). Then I run, fdsmtpop a second time to access the
>smtp server.
>
>The batch file takes perhaps another 7 seconds, and my ISP appears
>to support POP-before-smtp. That fixes it.
Howard, could you please post this batch file? I would very much like
to experiment with it, too. Stuffkey is available to me.
Regards
Christof Lange
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