Hi folks,
I can confirm that web.de needs pop3 access before smtp is enabled.
Timeout will occure after 30 minutes. The smtp upload error also occures
when IP address has changed fore some reason.
Regards Joerg
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:14:55 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi [philipp]!
> 04 Dec 2001, "[philipp] ~8ern~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> pe> only thing is the smtp-funktion (pop3 works).
> pe> i cannot send mail (using a @web.de account).
> Use your providers SMTP server.
> Maybe it is sufficient to use POP before SMTP.
> Freemail providers must ensure somehow, that only valid users can use
> their SMTP server.
> The problem is that SMTP itself contains no authentification, and that many
> programs don't understand authenticated SMTP (including arachne :(( )
> Freemailers can't use IP ranges, bevause you can log on from any provider.
> So IMHO you log in to the pop server, and than access is granted from your
> IP to the SMTP server for some limited amount of time.
> pe> thanks,
> pe> philipp
> pe> (frankfurt, germany)
> CU, Ricsi
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