Matthew Thomas wrote: >Many competent corporate sysadmins have already set up their mail >servers to strip viruses, and in some cases any executable file at all, >from incoming messages. > While this might be a good idea for companies, I don't want my ISP to mess with my email in any way. For example, I occasionally do want to have virii, to test/improve Mozilla's security.
>By the way, a server that removes viruses as they are *received* would >be POP or IMAP, not SMTP. > Nope. Sender's client -> Sender's SMTP server -> Recipients's SMTP server->Recipients's POP server -> Recipient's client. Internet mail servers from different parties communicate with each other via SMTP (usually). It is only the process of downloading the mail stored on the server to the client for which POP/IMAP are used. >I would be extremely surprised if more than ten percent of Netscape >users read the release notes. > Me too. Not even I do.
