RE: | authentication. How hard is it to run with SMTP Auth enabled? The consistent use of SMTP Auth is a nice goal, but from a practical perspective, we find buggy clients (OE, & O) that under some circumstances will not reliably authenticate... This is particularly true when virus scanning software is involved as it tends to place itself between the client and it's server(s). -- To the end user an occasional failure is just plain broken, and right or wrong considered to be our fault. For that reason, on corporate systems I tend to dial-in the IP block from the end user's network the very first time we get trouble with authentication.
Systems in the outside world are either out of luck, or must settle for web based access. The unfortunate reality is that this trouble happens more frequently than not. My $0.02 _M | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of | Joshua Levitsky | Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:57 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] ORBZ being replaced with DSBL | | | Mail froms from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the blacklist. | whatever.com gets blacklisted. However when the admin goes to | the blacklist site to get de-listed he sees why he was | listed. He sees it came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has to | then figure out how someone sent mail as someone else or has | to check up on the actual user he discovers sent the message. | | Even in a corporate environment.... actually... especially in | a corporate environment you should not have SMTP servers | accept mail from any client on your network without | authentication. How hard is it to run with SMTP Auth enabled? | I'd rather do that then see [EMAIL PROTECTED] or | [EMAIL PROTECTED] get an email from | [EMAIL PROTECTED] cursing them out. | | -Josh | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "Ron Hornbaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:34 PM | Subject: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] ORBZ being replaced with DSBL | | | > Ron, | > | > Even with your segregation of corporate mail, how do you | feel about | > the possibility of the service being blacklisted daily at | any single | > user's whim, as the DSBL would allow? | > | > Sandy | > | > | > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html | > to be removed from this list. | > | > An Archive of this list is available at: | > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ | > | > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked | > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ | > | | | Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html | to be removed from this list. | | An Archive of this list is available at: | http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%| 40list.ipswitch.com/ | | | Please visit the Knowledge Base for | answers to frequently asked | questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ | | Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
