on 8/31/01 8:19 PM, Sam Varshavchik at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake:
> Correct.
>
> I have said many times before that my opinion is that POP-before-SMTP and
> IMAP-before-SMTP approach is a hack, nothing more. This approach might have
> made sense 2-3 years ago, but not any more. Pretty much every mail client
> out there supports authenticated SMTP, and that's the right solution for
> this particular problem. That's what people should be doing. Authenticated
> SMTP is a much more reliable, and a technically sane approach.
I agree, and have decided to migrate from roaming users to authenticated
smtp.
> FWIW, you can still get the old authentication configuration by specifying
> --without-authdaemon to Courier-IMAP's configuration script. It's just that
> the default setting now builds authdaemon, because it's simply easier for me
> with everyone on the same playing field, and everyone using authdaemon.
I had trouble making this happen before, but must have been doing something
wrong. Works for me now, so I can leave IMAP-before SMTP on during the
transition.
Cheers,
Bill Shupp
