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] 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/
