No, Thomas ... *I* did NOT slip.
What I wrote was absolutely true and precisely correct:
1. When I telnet into my ISP POP3 the server software does NOT prompt for
authorization. [In many other places it does.]
2. Authorization is REQUIRED, but *I* have to provide it in the correct
format.
If you stop and think, what Bernie says makes good sense also:
How could a browser or web access be set up to work with any & all POP3
servers if the website/browser had to know in advance what prompt to
look for? Thus the universal protocol for POP3 *must* be "caller supply
full authorization codeword & data" ...
[And in telling you that, I have had one of my own questions answered
about "How can a website access my mail so easily?"]
l.d.
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:33:19 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
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