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Kryptolus wrote:
| Jorey Bump wrote:
|> astanhope wrote:
|>
|>> I have an IMAP server account that in Outlook Express (incoming mail
|>> server) requires "Log on using Secure Password Authentication".
|>>
|>> Is there a compatible feature in Mozilla?
|>>
|>
|> Yes. Look at Edit --> Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings --> Server
|> Settings and check Use Secure Connection (SSL). You may also need to
|> change the port to 993 for imaps.
|>
|
| microsoft has a proprietory protocol "Secure Password
| Authentication"(SPA). He might be asking about that.
|
|

I'm pretty sure he is.  That's MSN's way of forcing their subscribers to use
their software.  As a soon-to-be-former MSN subscriber, I've tried using SSL and
stuff, but that ain't it....but Microsoft isn't trying to be a monopoly or
anything. Heh.

The only solution I know of to this one is to get an ISP that doesn't care which
e-mail client you use.  I've also heard rumors that AOL does something similar
to their users, so beware of them also.

Although, if anyone DOES come up with a way around SPA, I'd sure be interested,
too.

~~Bill

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