> From: Jakob Hirsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> I understand that, I've been long enough in this business. I 
> just wanted to know with which servers the behaviour 
> described by you happens.

Specifically it was older Novell Groupwise servers, though adding the AUTH=
line after the AUTH line aparrently broke an old sendmail server.
 
> You wrote that the bogus authenticator didn't fix the 
> behaviour, so this wouldn't be a question of elegance. 
> Applying non-trivial patches is far less elegant than a 
> little config change.
 
It fixed some of the remote servers, I just consider coding up a non
required authenticator to subvert an MTA into producing a required response
less elegant than having the MTA software support it natively. Patch or
otherwise.

-Andy-


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