> -----Original Message----- > From: Bowie Bailey > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:58 PM
[ Snip ] > BTW, if MSA is ESMTP with mandatory authentication, why is > the setting "AUTH_REQUIRED=0" in the config by default? > Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Ah, sorry, that description was a mix of the standard and my personal implementation. MSA under RFC2476 doesn't *have* to have authentication; in practice, the only additional requirement of MSA over regular SMTP is that MSA's MUST ensure that all envelope address domains are fully qualified. So Courier basically runs bog standard ESMTP on port 587, *but* has separate files, so you can add, say, AUTH_REQUIRED=1. The broader import of MSA in general is that you can enforce different rules for messages that your host originates compared to accepts from the outside. For example, maybe you want to limit the maximum message size you can send at a figure smaller than the one you can receive, or want to refuse messages with too many recipients, but accept them, etc. > Bowie Malc. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
