Help! Smtp authentication?

[Richard Menedetter]

Hi

08 Feb 2001, "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Ricsi>> Your SMTP agent (yeah ... that one which you can telnet in ;)
 Ricsi>> will get
 TM>   incoming mail.
 TM>   If it uses ORBS, than it looks up the address.
 TM>   If the mail came from a open relay, it will send the mail back, and
 TM>   tell the author, that his SMTP server is blacklisted at ORBS.
 TM>   'Please contact your postamster, and tell him to fix it' ;)

 TM> Ricsi, I think you slipped here.  SMTP handles outgoing mail, POP3
 TM> handles incoming mail.
i know ;)
No I have not slipped ...
mail that you download from POP3 gets transferred to the server via SMTP.
You than download it via POP3 or IMAP or read the /var/spool/mail/[user]
mbox file directly.

CU, Ricsi

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