Am Montag, den 17.07.2006, 14:19 +0200 schrieb Joachim Draeger: > Am Montag, den 17.07.2006, 02:54 -0700 schrieb Norman Maurer (JIRA): > > Add Support for POP-before-SMTP (roaming users) > > > We should add support for pop-before-smtp. This is a common and often used > > technic to authenticate users before allow them to send an email to an > > external address. > > The question is why is it still often used. > There are two reasons for using pop-before-smtp: > > 1. the client does not support SMTP-AUTH > 2. the server does not support SMTP-AUTH > > pop-before-smtp has always been a workaround and it has drawbacks for > the user. (Some clients try to first send and the receive when going > online) > James supports SMTP-AUTH. Are there really clients, that still don't > support it? > > I guess the reason why pop-before-smtp still is used so often is because > administrators don't want to change their approved setup. And e.g. > widely used MTA qmail still doesn't support SMTP-AUTH without a patch! > > IMHO there is no demand for it, but I may be wrong . > > Joachim
I think you are right .. But sometimes when a admin want to switch to the other mailserver he want to use the old behavior.. Its not so easy for a admin to change to a mailserver that now only support smtp-auth with about 5000 Users ;-) I think the feature is not to hard to implement.. So it should be not bad to have this ;-) bye Norman
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