We are all paying the price, in so many ways, for the behavior of spammers. In the before time, SMTP servers were open and had virtually no security for sending email. Enter the spammers, and after the owners of those SMTP servers suffer through thousands of emails being sent through their servers, they began to implement measures of varying restrictiveness to make sure nobody sends spam through their servers. We, the honest, hardworking users of their services now have to endure passwords, other security, limits on how many emails we can include on the To: line of an email, etc. etc.
One more pain in the butt we must endure because of the lowest common denominator. Incoming mail servers (POP3, traditionally) have always had security associated with them, so no changes needed. Cheers, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Messeder Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Versamail SMTP compatibility Here is something I have never understood; maybe someone can explain. Why is it one can access email on any server (company firewalls and VPNs notwithstanding) but one can only *_Send_* from the ISPs server. . . . snip . . .
