On Monday Chris Bone brought up MailWasher and I suggested contacting the 
developers about the SMTP AUTH situation.  Well, as the program sounds 
promising, I followed my own suggestion and received this reply today.

>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:48:20 +1200
>To: Tyran Ormond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>At 10:36 2/04/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>This is a great program but it has one serious flaw:  The inability to do 
>>SMTP AUTH.  SMTP AUTH is one of the very few ways of ensuring that my 
>>mail server (or any mail server for that matter) cannot be hijacked for 
>>SPAM as the only people that can send mail are authenticated users and if 
>>they SPAM I can just kill their account.  More mail servers are moving to 
>>SMTP AUTH only (not even relaying for trusted IP addresses) which narrows 
>>the usability of MailWasher more each day.
>
>Hi Tyran,
>We are adding SMTP authentication and it will be in the next version due 
>out in about 3 weeks. I'll email you when it is ready.
>
>Thanks Mike.

Tyran Ormond
Programmer/LAN Administrator
Central Valley Water
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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