>
>
>> So, Mr. Admin, setup your laptop to use SSL to your SMTP and POP
>> server and authenticate with a client side certificate on your
>> laptop. Welcome to the 21st century. You may, however, need a little
>> more infrastructure than you can pull from your favourite distribution
>> box.
>
>
> RFC 2487 STARTTLS
> RFC 2554 SMTP-Auth, + M$ Exchange / + Netscape
> ( + a bunch of other authenticator methods )
>
> Under encryption, plaintext username + password login.
> The IETF protocols DO NOT support plaintext login for
> obvious security reasons.
>
> No hazzles about autenticating by certificates.
>
> Availability of the feature is probably excidingly rare..
Actually TLS/SASL is exactly what I use on my systems and I offer it to
whomever needs it. The way I do it is at
http://blue-labs.org/clue/sendmail.html.
-d
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