| Matthew Palmer 2004-12-01, 4:28 am |
| On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:12:12PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Steve McIntyre]
>
> "connection refused" generate a support request from the user, and
> increases the load on the support organisation. The users will ask
> what the error message mean, and will have to get the explanations
> individually. A message poping up every time the user connect to the
> wrong service will normally change the users behaviour without any
> extra work for the support organisation.
It appears that you have missed the point. One of the primary reasons why
you would use pops rather than pop3 (I presume) is so that your
authentication credentials aren't sent in the clear. This daemon allows the
user to send their credentials en clair before telling them that they need
to reconfigure their mail client. To quote the Guinness ad, "Brilliant!"
- Matt
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