Hey, i have withdrawn from Jaroslaw Rafa wrote in <20200826083557.ga15...@rafa.eu.org>: |Dnia 25.08.2020 o godz. 23:39:43 Steffen Nurpmeso pisze: |> Usually you be given a username and a password, and a server name |> and a port. That you enter into the MUA, and the rest you do not |> know. (Unless you use a real primitive MUA, where you have to be |> explicit.) | |I would say the opposite: it is a rather primitive MUA that does not \ |give you |more configuration settings.
Well i have no idea. I only ever used pine, mutt, alpine and the thing i maintain. I once started into Apple Mail by 2010 (November 2009 i bought the one Apple i wanted to have once, so around that time), and also i unfortunately have to enter the GMail web interface sometimes because i have message size restrictions for the box they forward to, and especially if my mother sends me super-over-sized photos this does not work out ... and all that is a closed black box. The former even with icons for text attachments and such. I have read the bugzilla/forum thread that was referred to in this thread last year, and in that thread a very big graphical application was made configurable in respect to AUTH. |In most MUAs I used, besides a server name and a port, you can (and should) |configure whether a) you want to use AUTH or not b) you want to connect |unencrypted, encrypted via SMTP-over-TLS (as typically on port 465) or |encrypted via STARTTLS (as typically on port 587). Of course there are some |defaults for these parameters, but you can always change them. |If you configure in the MUA that you don't want to use AUTH, then you also |don't enter any username and password. And with this setting the MUA does |not try to use AUTH even if the server advertises it. You know, the nice thing about this thread is that i have reread the entire postfix TLS and ACCESS readme files, and i have a much better configuration now. I even started thinking whether i should support relay for authenticated clients, instead of going over ssh all the time. (Though the mux is practically always online if i am online, so ...) I would have no idea how to configure GMail or the Apple Mail i used (once, a decade ago) to achieve that. Having said that, one more thing comes to mind regarding postfix. Ciao, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
