Richard G
Verified User
I can only find an article from 2009 so I would like to ask, since now I also got spamblocker and pigeonhole etc. running.
It seems pop-b4smtp is something which get's more and more advised to be disabled and use smtp auth instead. However it's still enabled by default on Directadmin installations.
So now I have the following questions:
1.) Is smtp auth indeed safer then pop-b4smtp or doesn't it make much difference?
2.) How do I disable pop-b4smtp on my server and force smtp auth
3.) Is there anything on the client side which needs to be changed to make use of smtp auth, like in Outlook or Thunderbird and if yes, what needs to be changed?
4.) Does the change on the server (force smtp auth) has any influence on spamblocker or pigeonhole settings or does anything needs to be changed there?
It seems pop-b4smtp is something which get's more and more advised to be disabled and use smtp auth instead. However it's still enabled by default on Directadmin installations.
So now I have the following questions:
1.) Is smtp auth indeed safer then pop-b4smtp or doesn't it make much difference?
2.) How do I disable pop-b4smtp on my server and force smtp auth
3.) Is there anything on the client side which needs to be changed to make use of smtp auth, like in Outlook or Thunderbird and if yes, what needs to be changed?
4.) Does the change on the server (force smtp auth) has any influence on spamblocker or pigeonhole settings or does anything needs to be changed there?