Eric B. wrote: > Well - not really. I was (and am) very clear on the difference between POP > and SMTP, and was very well aware that ASSP was purely an SMTP proxy and had > nothing to do with POP. What I had found confusing was how ASSP integrated > with a POP server to allow for Pop before SMTP. Apart from the instructions > in the web interface (which were minimal), I couldn't find any reference to > explain how to use it, or what file formats ASSP supported, etc. I believe > the web interface has been improved slightly, but I don't think anyone has > effectively described what fileformats ASSP supports for popb4smtp (i > haven't checked the wiki recently - have been utterly swamped with a million > other things I have to get working - even ASSP has fallen to a background > prioiryt at the moment). > So then the lack of understanding is with what POP before SMTP is, and/or how it works. I don't know what you mean by "fileformats" here. POP before SMTP is a type of authentication mechanism - or rather a way to skip authenticating twice (for POP and for SMTP connections).
Once a MUA authenticates to the POP3 service, the IP address is put into a temporary table of allowed IPs that can issue SMTP commands to the MTA to send mail to non-local recipients. This is to the best of my understanding of how POP before SMTP works in a generic sense. Its possible that ASSP uses this methodology in a slightly modified manner. ----- MUA : Mail User Agent (client) MTA : Mail Transfer Agent (server) > Maybe George can chip in what else he finds/found confusing about the > popb4smtp as well.... If people don't speak up about what they find confusing or ambiguous, we'll never get the docs done right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
