| Stephen Gran on 23 Mar 2004 01:41:02 -0000 |
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:59PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion said: > > IMAP requires the user to connect to the server in order to send mail. > > Not too many properly setup servers will allow non-users to send lots of > > email from them without cause. Comcast allowing Comcast users to use > > other email addresses probably isn't a problem since Comcast is > > authenticating the user, further it's a simple solution to cut off email > > privileges once a certain number of emails goes out from that user. > > Spammers can't exist with a limit of let's say 100 per hour. > > It has been a while, but a few years back, my work email was being stored on a > fishnet (pond.com/alexion.com) server, and we were using comcast at home. > When I was home I could log onto the IMAP server at alexion.com, but had to > use comcast's smtp to send mail. alexion.com's IMAP server didn't know a > thing about the mail I was sending via comcast's smtp. What is with the general confusion between IMAP and SMTP? Different protocols, different servers, different ports. Not related. Both happen to handle email. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | <doogie_> linux takes shit and turns it | | steve@lobefin.net | into something useful. <doogie_> | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | windows takes something useful and | | | turns it into shit | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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