At 08:44 AM 2/6/2003, The Little Prince wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Daniel Senie wrote:Very good point.
> posting, your users are using Outlook or Outlook Express. Both support SMTP
> AUTH just fine, so use it! You turn it on by clicking a check box on the
> Servers config tab that says "my server requires authentication." The
> default settings work.
>
i agree with the SMTP AUTH statements. be aware, if you're on a system
that uses Norton AV, this has a habit of not letting AUTH work with the
defaults. Default being for it to use the pop3 username/password. You have
to actually "specify" your username/password. It won't assume it from your
incoming authentication. But just with Norton AV, as i've seen and heard
about so far.
Norton AV, and other email filtering and handling products which interpose themselves in as proxy servers in this way are really useless products. They fail to implement lots of features of POP (e.g. TLS) and create serious support headaches. Products which wish to filter spam or viruses REALLY should be built to "plug in" to mail clients via APIs. Other vendors get this right.
While I use Norton for virus scanning myself, I keep the email scanning disabled (I provide Antivirus in my mail server anyway, and have other protections on my client, so I'm covered). This poorly designed component really hurts an otherwise decent product offering.
