On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:16:17 -0500 Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Carlos Sousa said: > > > steve:~$ apt-cache show pop-before-smtp > > > > Talk about ugly hacks. This has to be one of the stupidest piggyback > > authentication schemes ever devised by "human man". > > > > Anyway, the OP need concern himself only with the fetching of email, > > the smtp authentication is completely out of his hands. > > You misunderstand (or I didn't bother to explain clearly) - I wasn't > answering the OP with a suggestion of how to go about his problem, I > was answering someone else's question about how SMTP AUTH was possible > if you don't send a password, but do for POP.
Yes, you were answering me (among others?), you were very clear, and I'm sure I understood you. You actually did what I should have done, which was research on the topic and a concise posting of the findings, and helped enlarge my personal knowledge on these matters. For that I am thankful. I just reacted, not to you, but to the concept of authenticating smtp connections by watching unrelated network traffic. Hope that's cleared up :) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
