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

[Kenneth Loafman]

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.

Its probably an agreement between Mickeysoft and ATTBI to only actively 
support Microsoft products (with some money or hefty discounts back to 
ATTBI).  In this way ATTBI applies an indirect "Microsoft Tax" to every 
Linux customer that is naive enough to bring up an MS system just to 
read mail.

Too much cynicism?  The maybe the Help Desk is just incompetent, or they 
figure that Linux users do not need support.  If they then configure 
their MTA to support only MS connections, then see previous theory.

Either way, keep the pressure up.  I imagine that they are running UNIX 
based mail servers since MS Exchange would not keep up with the load.

...Ken