If I had a dollar for every Linux box...

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From: Twail.L (twl_at_twl.tg)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:37:49 +1100

If I had a dollar for every Linux box, incorrectly set-up as a mail server,
that has been in my experience to encounter, I would have made my own
modest bid for the entire RedHat Company by now. However, the following
just takes the cake, both soundly and comprehensively, and is testament
again to the way these MVP people think. Useless...

IN REGARDS TO: "Authenticated SMTP"
"If your ISP has failed to set up their system properly, it may be that you
are not "logged in" to their server unless you Receive Mail. If you find
that you can receive mail, and anything you send immediately afterwards
does go, while anything you attempt to send half an hour later doesn't,
your ISP may be one of those."

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/send_receive/sending_problems.html

*** Note the complete lack of accountability; "If your ISP has failed to
set up their system properly"

...It's actually called "POP before SMTP", and, notwithstanding it's
"work-around" type status, it is still accepted as being a viable paradigm
for "Authenticated SMTP" type sending. FACT.

Other Mail clients known to work with qmail's "Authenticated SMTP"
feature.; Outlook, Outlook Express, Agent, Eudora, Apple Mail &
"/usr/bin/mail + shell script".

Entourage2004 - bzzzzt!

The MVP's have to denounce it as being an ISP error because they don't have
an explanation for Entourage not supporting proper "Authenticated SMTP"
properly.

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