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Re: [LUG] Yahoo spam article

 

On 27/06/13 19:36, Simon Avery wrote:
> And that is email. Anything that allows a user to use a protocol or
> system is a client. I'm using gmail's web interface right now, and it
> sure looks like a mail client to me. I also use gmail as an imap base,
> and a spam filtering service, and a whole lot of other stuff. I'm on
> some extremely high volume mailing lists and with some basic
> filtering, it's all presented very manageably. That sounds like a mail
> client to me, matey! The fact that it comes for free, with effectively
> limitless space, makes life easy. I don't need to micro-manage my
> personal email like I do work's. To say gmail isn't an email client is
> like saying water isn't wet. You could probably pull some statistics
> and worthy research out of the hat to prove your case, but the rest of
> the world will be tutting and making circular motions around their ear...

So how would you two guys classify telneting port 25 and issuing EHLO
localhost?

Email client or not?

I have no dog in this fight, I think you both make some good points.
Just curious.

Regards

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