I would like to know what would happen if someone runs an email checker
program before sending, can this be used as a workaround? In other words, I
keep an email checker program like ePrompter running in the background and
set to check every 10 minutes. Say about 30 minutes into a session, I decide
to launch OE and send off a quick email. Would I still have to POP-first in
OE? Or did my email checker program handle the POP-first requirement?
Can someone test that one out for me? I'd try it myself but my SMTP server
does not require POP-first authentication.
> > I no longer have SoftHome either because of those specific problems in
> > the past. I also didn't like the fact that I had to constantly POP
> > before sending.
>
> I too had "issues" with softhome.net, but pop-first authentication is
> now becoming quite common. Many of our free remote pop3 services now
> require that.
>
> The pop3 protocols can be sent to a server without actually downloading
> your mail. The Pegasus mail client that I use is the only client I've
> seen that allows you to configure an smtp setting for "pop-first."
> With Pegasus you don't actually have to download email to send email
> first, but rather you just send mail and in the process Pegasus first
> sends out a POP3 signal and when the receiving server acknowledges,
> then Pegasus can send the mail. It all happens very fast and you did
> not have to actually download email.
>
> If other email client vendors would put this feature in their email
> programs, I don't think the pop-first authentication would be an
> annoyance for anyone.
>
> http://www.pmail.com/
>
> Does anyone else on this list use another email client that has a
> configuration feature where an SMTP setting can be set to "pop first?"
>
>
> Alan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
