From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Manson To: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: important people (!) unable to use sourceware Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: <200003100335.TAA17448@tristam.juniper.net> References: <200003100013.TAA04899@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00005.html Message-ID: <20000309193500.YDyvLU4U-U-N6xLv4uQQy8dNVs0s2YpNRb0uVzL3kTc@z> In message < 200003100013.TAA04899@devserv.devel.redhat.com >, Jim Kingdon writes : >No one has a really nice solution to the problem of sending email >while on the road. Actually, there's been an (unofficial?) extension to POP3 (XTND XMIT) that's been around for at least 10 years, but most of the major pop servers and mail programs don't appear to use it (the exception being Eudora and the Qualcomm POP3 server). It's a shame, really--it's a bit of a kludge, but we used it extensively when I was doing admin at OSU and it worked quite well. Doing it via the POP protocol always seemed like a lot cleaner way of sending outgoing mail than using SMTP directly, and with a few appropriate tweaks it was impossible for users to forge mail via the POP service. This is an area where again, things are easy to fix, but nobody wants to do it because it's not terribly interesting...and there are other forces at work. (email is free right now, and I'm quite certain that bothers some commercial interests...never mind, I'm babbling.) I believe IMAP has a way to send outgoing mail, but IMAP has other... problems. Bob