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. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
