Brother Paiz, I'm afraid you misread or misunderstood my comment. Not all mailers understand or can make use of SMTP AUTH. I did not say "not all MTAs"...mailers = client mail programs. MTAs = mail servers.
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > At 5/16/2002 10:10 PM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > >On Thu, 16 May 2002, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > > > > > Because POP before SMTP is a kludge. SMTP AUTH is part of the standard. > > > > > > >But Pop-Before-SMTP utilizes existing, easily implementable standards. > > > >Not all mailers understand or can make use of SMTP AUTH, and it's not > >necessarily an easy thing to properly implement. > > Incorrect, Brother Burger. Deeply, profoundly incorrect. > > SMTP AUTH is a standard, defined via RFC as standards are. It therefore > meets your "existing" criterion. It is also extremely easy to implement > (meeting your second criterion). > > Any user with enough "skill" (loosely defined) to modify sendmail.mc and > allow their mailserver to receive connections from the network can also > uncomment the following three lines (straight from the stock sendmail.mc): > > define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > > Then restart sendmail; that's all there is to it. > > On the other hand, POP-before-SMTP is not a standard or anything close to > it. It is a kludge (albeit a useful kludge) which was implemented during > the interval _after_ SMTP AUTH was defined but _before_ most mailers > supported it. Note that LookOut, LookOut Express, Eudora, Evolution, KMail, > and even pine support SMTP AUTH. Whichever mailers don't support it, are > simply broken. > > I also don't find it easier to implement. Additional packages, additional > databases, also having to modify sendmail.mc, and the fact that all my > users scream about their mail not leaving their computer, the grief about > having to constantly check mail twice, etc... all these things tell me that > POP-before-SMTP is not my friend. > > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
