[NTLUG:Discuss] SBC Yahoo DSL and Linux...

[Chris Cox]

MontyS at videopost.com wrote:
> Slightly off-thread, but on-topic:
> 
> How and/or why would a mail-server care what mua is connected to it?  I can
> connect Mozilla 1.3.1 (Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX) to both my Sendmail
> server and my Exchange 5.5 server with no problems.  I can also connect
> Outlook Express, Outlook, Opera, and MacMail to the above servers with no
> problem.  Is this an Exchange 2000 issue?  Is someone admin at Comcast/attbi
> just trying to be difficult?  Looks like configuring a server to
> discriminate between mua's would take a lot of time, and be of no benefit.

Has to do with socket closure.  Their pop doesn't strictly adhere to
protocol specs either, but not many do... sigh... so probably not
the issue.