To answer this and the previous, Microsoft uses SPA which is a Microsoft proprietary authentication model that allows for it to be integrated with the Windows general authentication (and does secure POP which is neat even though hard to believe from MS). As far as I know, only Microsoft clients can and do support SPA, and the server will only answer to clients that use SPA. SPA means Secure Password Authentication (at least according to the Outlook setup windows I just check). And this is how Microsoft limits the clients only to its products. On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Clint Tinsley wrote:
The same question crossed my mind. I am sure there is some Microsoft meta type identifier the can filter on and if not present, reject the email as unauthenticated. You would be able to pull your mail okay but you wouldn't be able to send. Microsoft justifies this requirement as part of their "spam" defense initiative. As far as the mail server capacity, someone told me that they actually use qmail on MSN mail servers... but this is unauthenticated as well.
dog@intop.net wrote:
this may sound stupid, but how are they going to keep other pop clients like kmail, netscape, eudora, pine, etc. from connecting to thier servers? I run a mail server for an isp and the pop server does not distinguish what type of client is accessing it from anything i can tell. maybe if they plan on using the microsooft pop server and its somehow hacked up to only allow ms clients to connect ot it, but i cant imagine 1/2 million people hitting a ms server of any type and it surviving for long.
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Clint Tinsley wrote:
My ISP Qwest (soon to be x-ISP) entered an alliance with Microsoft MSN whereby all of Qwest's 1/2 million Internet subscribers will be "transitioned" to MSN where the only POP3 email clients allowed will be MSN Explorer, Outlook, and Outlook Explorer. :-( Linux users need not apply and they are working on a solution for Mac users. If you want to know more, goto www.qwest.net and follow the links...
Clint
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