Help! Smtp authentication?

[Richard Menedetter]

Hi

04 Feb 2001, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 LB> Perhaps you can suggest to your MIS people that their
 LB> "authentication" isn't really that secure, and
 LB> that the area which needs to protect SMTP is telnet

What do you mean by that ??
(area which needs to protect SMTP is telnet ??)

There are no different versions of SMTP.
The SMTP demon does not care wether you are human/another program, wether
you use telnet, or arachne to send to port 25.

The SMTPd (sendmail, qmail, ...) handles the socket.
Which program has opened the socket on the other side is completely
irrelevant !!!

 LB> l.d.

CU, Ricsi

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