On Sun, 17 September 2000, "Brian L. Johnson" wrote:
> However, CP's mail servers are known for being a tad flakey, and are
> often not quite configured right. 123india is a good example, they offer
> an IMAP server, but it doesn't authenticate. On the lists I run, I get a
> higher percentage of bounces off a CP powered server than any other.
CP have the best mail systems on the net, all run from a huge distributed server farm,
rather than indvidual boxes.
Their software has the ability to assign features to users on a per account basis -- a
nifty trick. You can get POP access to any CP system -- but if you don't have that
feature assigned to your account, they hang up after the PASS command.
I assume they do the same on IMAP -- the port is there, you can ask to use it, but if
you don't have that privildge in your account, bye.
Mail.Canada.com, for one, sells storage space and POP access for a yearly fee, which
they can do because of this feature. The filters in virtually all CP systems (not
mail.www.com, for example) can be used for forwarding, though, even if the forward
option is turned off so it's not worth the cash to me.
This can be useful, though. All CP mail systems, even the ones that don't allow POP
access with a free signup, allow ESMTP -- like http://mail.yack.com/signup/
This means that by discovering the hidden password for my HiFusion mail -- looking in
the Opera cache for the javascript writtem -- I can send mail on HiFusion though their
CP mail system, which doesn't allow POP access. This is something that their support
says is impossible.
Salon did an article on CP
http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/14/critical_path/
They are big -- owning Supernews and being part of the CMGI monolith -- and they are
very good.
Obligatory mail system:
http://mail.atlas.com.mx/signup
CP, POP.
