On 9/20/05 8:33 PM, Bellwether at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No. OS X is as different from OS 9 as cash and credit cards are different > from each other. OS X is not just a "new style" of OS 9 currency; it's a > *completely* different architecture. OS 9 is obsolete and no longer > supported by Apple; it's no longer legal tender.
We're clearly talking past each other but I'll try again. In the world of Internet protocols, what operating system you're running is, in a properly standards-compliant world, irrelevant. The applications involved do not care and should not even know what operating system is being used. In fact, neither POP3 nor SMTP have any defined means of a client to tell the server what operating system it is or even what specific mail client it is (yes, the mail client is frequently embedded in a header of a mail message but all the headers are just data (and are sent following the DATA command) in an SMTP transaction). As someone who runs his own mail server and has spent time doing some debugging, I do know what I'm talking about here. The S in SMTP means Simple and it really is and it takes all of four commands to send a message: HELO, MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, and DATA. You can (and I have for debugging purposes) telnet to port 25 on a server and type those by hand along with their parameters and the data (the message with its headers) and it will work just fine. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
