[pmmail-list] long-time question
Pat Sklenar
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:04:56 -0500
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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F0F0F0" ><p><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:46:17 +0100 (MET), Frank Winkler wrote:<br /><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">> > >  You need to get more information about exactly what they</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">> > >  mean.  Just saying "SSL" isn't enough, and probably isn't</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">> > >  correct.  Although it is theoretically possible to do POP</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">> > >  via SSL, to my knowledge no current e-mail clients do so,</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">> > &g!
t;  and it would be silly in most circumstances.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">> > ></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">> ></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">> >  Pegasus Mail does, not sure about any others.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">> ></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">>  I think Thunderbird also does ... ? But has many other oddities :(</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">>  ...</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Pocomail also has an option to enable SSL on it's "Incoming" mail configuration tab.  I have no idea how it works, or even if it does - since I don't have an email account on a server that uses SSL - , but ... it's another option.</SPAN></p>
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