> On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 5:38 PM Wietse Venema <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Nathan Dehnel: > > > Jun 03 17:14:51 gentooserver postfix/submission/smtpd[44445]: < > > > unknown[10.0.0.152]: <base64 for old password before it was changed> > > > > The Postfix SMTP server receives that password from the remote SMTP > > client.
Nathan Dehnel: > The error is triggered by me running > echo "test" | mail -s "test" [email protected] > on another computer. That other computer uses Postfix or some other MTA to send the message, and that is what sends the password. > I don't recall ever dealing with passwords when SENDING mail to > an account. You don't deal with the password, the MTA on that other computer does that for you. Wietse
