>On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John Grant wrote:
>
>> So, is anybody using XMIT ? Since it's a standard feature in qpopper I
would
>> hope that someone is doing this...
>
>it may be a standard feature in qpopper, the issue here is that it's not
>part of the POP standard, and so most mail clients don't seem to support
>it. Hence, since none of my users is clamouring for it there's no point in
>me spending time on it.
This to support our remote users who often end up on other companies'
networks. Many companies now use firewalls to redirect outgoing port 25
traffic that is not from a 'known' mailhost to the internal mail host for
processing.
We want our remote users to be able to send email with our company domain
name on it, without a) having to have customer firewalls reconfigured, or
b)leaving our mail server open as a spam relay.
So it looks like I'll be redoing the patches (and of course posting the
results).
