On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Kris Kelley wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> > > If I'm wrong, my apologies. I'm not familiar with smtp-poplock, and I
> was
> > > basing what I said on Bjorn Nilsen's last reply, which said,
> "smtp-poplock
> > > is just another implementation of 'pop before smtp.'"
> >
> > It does the same thing - allow any client to send mail provided they
> > successfully authenticated with the POP3 server first - but that's
> > the only way they're the same.
>
> No, ESMTP AUTH is different from pop-before-smtp. With ESMTP AUTH, clients
> authenticate themselves via the SMTP server for each SMTP session. The POP
> server is not involved at all.
>
> The way the qmai-smtpd-auth patch works, if a client connects to the SMTP
> server and successfully authenticates itself, the patched qmail-smtpd
> process sets RELAYCLIENT for that session, thereby allowing relaying. When
> the SMTP session is closed, the relaying permissions, along with the rest of
> that process, disappear.
Ok it is different, but the same drawback remains... You have to patch
your qmail installation. I got stuck running a 1.02 for awhile after
1.03 came out because of patches. That was the last version I patched.
Vince.
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