>
> Thanks Ted.
>
> I am getting that POP/SMTP is not often used in any case, with or without
> SSL/TLS. Still, it's not entirely dead.
>
I do not have the same experience. We have clients all over the country,
SMB offices, that use their local ISPs for mail service and most are using
SMTP. I think you will find hundreds of millions of people still using SMTP
and POP. Just not those few poor buzzards stuck with an Exchange server and
Outlook.
> All of the email services we use require authentication. Two of them
> require sending a complete valid email address, and password, served by the
> server; one just requires a login name and password (that's my internal
> email server on the LAN, which is restricted to only communicate
> internally). None of them require SSL and at least two of them won't permit
> it.
Yep, every time we set up a new client with our email-to-fax gateway I need
to dial in to a remote control session and using Blat and/or West-Wind IP
Client tools to try to debug which variant of SMTP, POP, TLS,
authentication, what they mean by user name ("fred" or "[email protected]" -
one works in one case, the other in others).
"I love standards, that's why I have so many."
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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