In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Crossley wrote: > Kryptolus 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? >|> >| >| 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.
AOL does indeed. Netscape mail also only works with Netscape... there is a RFE bug for implementing SPA to talk to news servers... if it was going to be implemented, then it should work for both POP3 and NNTP. don't know if that merits a new bug, or whether this bug should be altered to be more general. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119694 -- michael
