Well, yeah, but what about the "S" in SMTP?

:-)

(hint: it doesnt stand for secure!!)

The net, and BBSes before it, used to be a place that, while filled
with its own darkness, wasnt so plogged with daily crap. 

I say we just kick the damn moneychangers out of the temple entirely,
and run it like a temple again :-)

Patrick Fleming wrote:
> It prevents people from arbitrarily using a machine as a SMTP server who
> don't belong on it though... Yahoo uses it, and before I began running my
> own SMTP server, I had to deal with the login before sending scenario.
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jason wrote:
> > Theres a beautiful irony in that.
> > Most of the people who are running the SMTP servers have some other
> > method (constant connection, for example) of avoiding the problems
> > they themselves are so skilled at creating, so they havent even
> > bothered adressing the issue. Just another example of how screwed up
> > the internet gets when the openness is lost.
> > William Lindley wrote:
> > > I've found LOTS of info (on Google et al) about how to set up a Postfix
> > > *server* to require POP-before-SMTP...
> > > BUT NOWHERE is the answer to:
> > >  * How do I set Postfix to login to SMTP before sending mail?

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