Dear Archie, This has *nothing* to do with Listserv; it's a feature of your mail system. Make sure that all your settings are correct. Ingrid Shafer On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Archie wrote: I am using outlook express which need a account and password to access or send e-mails using POP & SMTP server. Hence cannot receive or send e-mails. Any alternative ??? ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:41 AM Subject: Re: Subscriber problem On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:42:52 +0800, Archie <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >But subscriber can not send e-mail to LISTSERV, until and unless he has a >password. Not true. Otherwise nobody would ever be able to send anything to LISTSERV. >And even thru web after assigning a password e-mail was sent to >subscriber to confirm by e-mail with "OK". Yes, this is part of the security procedure, but they do not need a password to reply to this email, they only need to Reply and write OK.