[Vmail-discuss] vmail compatible of suporting different clients

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:40:25PM +0100, Ren=E9 Brask S=F8rensen wrote:
> Hi all
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> I'm just currious if anyone can confirm that vmail is able to work with=
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> clients like outlook and evolution ??? (the pop3 part).=20
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> I'm using postfix+mysql+qpopper right now and have problems with the wa=
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> of outlook  treading usernames for pop3 accounts vs. postfix and qpoppe=
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This is really a tpop3d question rather than a vmail-sql
one.

Any client which speaks the POP3 protocol correctly will
interact OK with tpop3d. There are user interface problems
with some broken mail user agents which, if the user
enters a strings such as `foo@bar.com' assume that the
user has entered an email address in error, and so assume
that the full username is `foo'. Typically bugs of this
sort can be worked around by having users specify
`foo!bar.com', `foo%bar.com' or `foo:bar.com'; tpop3d
interprets any of the characters [@%:!] as a domain
separator.

I don't know of any problems with Microsoft Outlook and
POP3 usernames specifically, but I don't use Outlook and I
expect that any such reports would be drowned in the flood
of security problems.

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