High Speed Modems and Stuff

[John McGregor]

I would advise against getting Sympatico's service. They are in the
process of rolling out a new email service that uses Microsoft servers
rather than the QMail based ones that they had been using. It really is
an abomination -- it uses a TLS variant to authenticate mail in both
directions, which of course is not totally compliant with the version in
Thunderbird. If a Windows user is employing Norton, McAfee, AVG, PC
Cillin or Panda he / she has to turn off email scanning because all
these products use SSL, which is incompatible.The only antivirus
solution that is fully functional is the one that Sympatico sells and
the only email client that works seamlessly is Outlook Express. It also
requires the installation of Microsoft's .net client which isn't
available for Linux. I spent three days and many hours on the phone with
Sympatico support trying to get this working for a client -- the bottom
line is that he is now running Mandrake 10.1 and has a Rogers account
instead.

John

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