POP before SMTP script?

gotaserena · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject: POP before SMTP script?

My ISP SMTP server supports relay through POP before SMTP, but strangely enough, this doesn't work for IMAP. Is there any way I can configure thunderbird to run a script that telnets to the server POP port and logs in before sending e-mails?

I know evolution has a "pop-before-smtp" option but that only works if you configure access through POP.

TIA.

mesch.t · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 33

Hi!
I got the same problem and I even wrote a small perl script to make a pop-before-smtp but then my mails usually where marked as spam...
so I simply created another account just for sending which uses pop but never actually fetches any mail...works fine, except that mails sent with this account are not in my "send" directory on the mail server, but i can live with that.
(i use sylpheed-claws but i think the same should work with any client)
mesch.t

gotaserena · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

Hi there,

Yes, I went down the perl script as well (I can post it here later on if anyone is interested), it seems to be working so far.

IMHO it's very odd that no e-mail client has this option by default. I guess they think that all ISP are smart and they will work with SMTP-AUTH instead :roll:

colinleroy · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 50

Sylpheed-Claws has this option, it's in the account preferences (Receive tab).

robdd · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

Hi gotaserena - Have you thought about an alternate solution, where you ssh into a server that's connected to your ISP ?

I used to travel a lot, and my little tin-pot ISP where I had my personal email account didn't have out of town local-call charge access, so I had the same problem. It was solved for me when our office configured ssh access to our mail server. Is there any convenient way you could set up a server ? I know it may be a bit of work, but if you like that kind of challenge it might be fun. One down side of running you own server is having a machine at home powered up and disc spinning all the time (and this assumes you have a broadband connection) - but if you just used the server to loop through to your ISP then it could be a Linksys WRT54G or similar with Linux running on it.

I hope I'm not missing the point of what you're trying to do

Regards,
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