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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Another kmail thought...
From:       Mark Deneen <deneen () bucknell ! edu>
Date:       2000-03-07 12:33:51
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Actually, it's not.  

If you operate out of somedomain.org, and you want one user from someoneelse.com
to be able to send mail through your server it is useful.

You would not, for example, want all of AOL to be on your accept list.  You
also don't want yourself to be open to relaying, or your server will be used to
send spam.

So, someone came up with the idea that you check your mail with pop, and it
registers your IP with the mailer daemon.  That ip "sticks around" for about 10
minutes, then gets tossed away.  If within that 10 minutes you go to use smtp
to send, it allows you to do so.

On 07-Mar-00 Stefan Taferner wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mario Weilguni wrote:
>> > I'm currently implementing APOP support for kmail, and SSL may come
>> > too...
>>
>> How about authenticated SMTP servers? I don't know of a description URL,
>> but there are some that require, for example, that you connect to the POP
>> server first, and then use SMTP to send.
> 
> Sounds like a brain dead invention to me  ;-)
> 
> --Stefan
> 

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Mark Deneen
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