[pmmail-list] PMMail is (will become) OpenSource

[Tim Roberts]

Marc Lewis wrote:

>Hello all.
>
><On 27Jan2004 08:51 John Swartzentruber wrote:
>
> > However like many internet users I never employ a MIME-compliant
> > client because I don't want all the html and virus cr** that comes
> > with it.
>
> JS> I think you will find that most worms and viruses are spread
> JS> using POP3 and SMTP, so you might also be wise to use a client
> JS> that isn't SMPT or POP3 compliant.
>
>Well, without SMTP and POP3 you'll have to rely on MAPI, which IMO, is
>far more dangerous.  Besides, I really don't see why the actual POP3
>protocol would be responsible for spreading the worms.  MAPI would do
>the very same, if I'm not mistaken.
>  
>

John's message was intended as sarcasm.  He was making fun of those who 
would throw the baby out with the bathwater.  Without SMTP and POP3, 
there is no e-mail at all (today), and he realizes this.

MAPI is just a way to get into a mail application.  The app still has to 
use SMTP to send.

-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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