On Tue, 26 May 1998 12:27:33 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>From one real-life experience where I've seen this scheme implemented it
>is in fact easier to insist that the customer check for mail first, thus
>initiating the POP authentication. In fact this is trivial when the
>client uses something like Netscape as a mail client. If the connection
>drops before the outgoing queue is clear then the user need only initiate
>the connection by attempting to check for e-mail and everything seems to
>happen in the right order.
Remembering from the outburst of users when the German mail forwarder
gmx announced they probably will introduce smtp-after-pop, I believe
that at least Outlook Express cannot be configured to receive before
sending.
Greetings
Marc
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