>GSSAPI is the "Generic Security Services Application Program Interface" >and NTLM is "NT Lan Manager" -- they are both authentication systems >popular amongst various generations of Microsoft OSes. GSSAPI is >actually based on that old Unix stalwart: Kerberos, and hence is also >fairly popular amongst non-Microsoft types. They are some of the >authentication mechanisms that come as standard with SASL implementations. > >Unless you know that you do need them, you almost certainly don't. <...>
Thanks your for the explanation. I was actually not sure whether or not these options were needed. Authentication to the smarthost did not work, and at one point I noticed the line: <...> 250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM <...> coming from the server. So I gave it a try - and it still did not work. Christopher _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"