On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:01:16PM +0800, I wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> > 
> > Well that's true. But generally sendmail authenticates users via
> > /etc/passwd, so you *still* need a local account, thus hitting the uid
> > limit.
> 
> I guess you mean POP, IMAP, or some e-mail retrieval service
> here... since sendmail does not do any authentication.

Oh, almost forgot.  Of course there's SMTP-AUTH which
authenticates users.  Though, I don't think it's relevant here
since it's mostly used in mail-relay services.

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