Something I have never quite understood... what are soap mailers and why are they normally banned from the shared server environment?

Cheers

I'm assuming you meant SOAP (which is 'Simple Object Access Protocol'). SOAP is a way to essentially publish an external API to your software systems -- to make parts of them accessible via the Internet. If you did this, and hooked up a SOAP API to your mail server, you'd essentially be opening up your mail server as a relay.

Dan

Frankly I don't know what the poster is referring too. I do XML-RPC and SOAP work and just assumed he wasn't speaking of a SOAP interface to a mail system. Its not like that sort of thing is frequently asked about.

So what do you mean thread starter???

ps, you could implement a secure soap->smtp gateway easily enough.