JAMES implemented no SMTP message delivery authentication service extension.
As a result, up to JAMES 1.2.1, for the SMTP server to check if a message is a spam
one,
it can only checks if the sender is from a trusted host or from a real network domain.
Such a spam check cannot check if the sender owns a JAMES user account.
AUTH LOGIN is a kind of SMTP service extension for message delivery authentication.
With a mail servers implementating AUTH LOGIN, for a user to send a message via
SMTP to the server, he/she must be authenticated as one of users on the mail server,
usually with the same ID/psssword as his/her POP3 mail account ID/password.
In offices, MIS people may configure their M$ Exchange serverss to do AUTH LOGIN
check,
as to make sure only their local users may send messages via their Exchange servers.
(whether the sender gives an e-mail address not on the sender may not matter, it
depends
on how the Exchange server is configured.)
Most mail clients support this feature for a long time already.
----- Original Message -----
From: "fractals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: still not able to send mail outward
> : You need my AUTH LOGIN solution... ;-)
>
> Now I get what you say, it's true that for instance my access provider for
> the office isn't the same as the one for home. So what do you do ? Do some
> authentication or what ? I'd like to know...
