Re: pop3 changes
Glenn Anderson <glenn.anderson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Mon, 06 June 1994 02:20 UTC
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From: Glenn Anderson <glenn.anderson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: pop3 changes
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>... >Right now no POP client that I know of does any sort of mail routing. >It just knows of one place to send mail, and sends *all* outgoing mail >to that place. If it already has a POP connection to a centralized >mail handling system, why not let it use that connection to hand a >piece of mail to the system? An added benefit to this is that we >could disallow SMTP connections from all of the random PC's and Mac's >and junk on campus. Then people would have to authenticate themselves >with the POP server in order to send mail, and the POP server would >handle putting the correct From:, Reply-To:, etc. headers on the >mail. Sort of like INN's inews does if you have the authentication >stuff enabled. I would like to see the ability to send mail through a POP connection. At them moment if you want to implement electronic mail through serial, dialup line or some other connection system it is necessary to have some way of switching between POP3 and SMTP. As there is no standard method of doing this, it is currently necessary for dialup clients like Eudora to mess around with scripts to handle this. It also over complicates server implementation, as it is not possible to just attach a POP service to a different connection. At the same time it would also be nice to see the ability to change passwords via a POP connection. However I think it would not be worth adding either of these things to POP3, we would be better off defining something like POP4 for this. Glenn. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Glenn Anderson, Technical Assistant, Systems, University of Otago Library ! ! Internet:glenn.anderson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz ! ! "Knowledge is like a jigsaw puzzle, no matter how many pieces you've got, ! ! if you can't put them together, you won't see the whole picture" ! +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Opinions are not in my job contract so my employers have no claim to them ! +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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- Re: pop3 changes Steve Dorner
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- Re: pop3 changes Glenn Anderson
- Re: pop3 changes Ned Freed
- Re: pop3 changes Michael D'Errico
- Re: pop3 changes Steve Dorner
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- Re: pop3 changes brtmac
- Re: pop3 changes Michael D'Errico
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