Charles Angelich wrote: > > You may recall I had some speed bumps with EZNET?
Yes, I thought of you when I was deciding on the new dialer. > Is BL2 using a more 'standard' *nix setup for dialup > PPP or is EZNET a part of BL2 as well? I considered going back to chat (in conjunction with the full pppsetup routine from Slack71). I was hoping that a solid pppsetup would allow me to use chat without all the problems I had before supporting users. But pppsetup (and its display utility) were just too big. Still without making a firm decision, I compiled a new eznet to see how that went. The old eznet used pppd 2.2 (and libc5) -- BL2 needed a version for pppd 2.3 (and glibc2). Interesting enough, the eznet documentation makes a big deal about whether pppd is version 2.2 or 2.3 (apparently the differences are significant). Anyway, eznet compiled so nicely and worked so smoothly with pppd 2.3 that I thought "What the hell, let's use eznet and see if Charles has the same problem with pppd 2.3". So there is is, Charles. I hope you will give it a try and let me know if it's still fouling up. I suspect it will work just fine. > Access for many DOS users to POP and SMTP was lost when ISPs > decided you must SMTP prior to POP. Isn't it the other way around? POP is authenticated and SMTP isn't (usually), so by forcing SMTP to follow POP it piggy-backs on the POP authentication. > Will your combined application paint BL2 users into a similar > corner Nope. The separate menu options remain: # fetch mail from POP server and put in inbox # send mail from outbox to SMTP server > if/when there are any further 'enhancements' made by ISPs to > POP/SMTP? Actually the new client is better. Some BL1 users were unable to connect to their SMTP server because it required separate authentication. The SMTP client in BL1 was unable to do this. However, the new client in BL2 has optional authentication for SMTP. You should be able to try it yourself in a day or two. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
