Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

[Thomas Mueller]

from L.D.:

>What Glenn didn't say, and what I didn't understand, is that the server
>will NOT always prompt for authorization ... and port 110 is one place
>where it doesn't.  [It had me pulling out my already thin hair.]

and Bernie:

>Of course not. A mail server will never ask for username and password.

Bernie and L.D., you slipped!  Port 110 is POP3, and mail servers always, or
almost always, ask for username and password on this port.  Mail servers don't
usually ask for username and password on port 25 (SMTP), though a few use
authenticated SMTP.