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Rich Tietjens <Rev.Rich@atarinet.portland.or.NO.SPAM.us> wrote:

> In article <73493819_000003_OASIS_NEWS@the-gap.demon.co.uk>,
> gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk (Gary Priest) wrote: > >The problem is that
> newsie decides that the 'user' is 'gary' instead of >'the-gap' (in my
> case). Of course, this is totally wrong in Demon's case. > >I reported
> this to John Rojewski ages ago, but no fix has been produced yet >:(
> 
> In point of fact, according to the RFCs and so forth, your hostname is
> 'the-gap' - anything to the right of the '@' is part of the domain name,
> not a username.  Demon (and a very few other systems using
> antiquated/obsolete conventions) doesn't follow the RFC in that regard,

This mechanism is far from antiquated it is a very new POP3 system
implimented and especially designed in order to offer the benefits of
SMTP via POP3, the system was implicated so that you could have as many
mailboxes as you wished and then access the same mailbox(s) SMTP or POP,
making it one of (if not the) most advanced mail delivery systems in
operation.  I also do not recall anything in the POP3 RFCs that states
that the name of your mailbox should be anything but unique, perhaps you
could educate me a little?

> although if the system (the ISP's mail system, that is) were properly set
> up, 'gary@the-gap...' should be able to pick up his email because Demon
> would alias the POP3 server as 'the-gap' for that purpose. In accordance
> with the RFC, your username IS 'gary' - so John is correct in his
> configuration.  It's probably easier to get him to kludge Newsie than it
> is to get Demon to do anything other than provide a port for spam to enter
> the 'net, however.

This isn't the place fora right's and wrongs of mail2news discussion but
you know perfectly well that the mail2news gateway is an essential part
of the Demon service and widely valued by many people, Demon have acted
as responsibly as I can see sensible and the restrictions recently
implimented have been quite detrimental enough.

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