On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Randall Gellens wrote:
> In my personal opinion, drac is a convenient interim solution until
> support for SMTP AUTH is ubiquitous.
I agree.
The problem is that I see people pushing DRAC and other out-of-band
solutions as the best way to do things.
> SMTP AUTH is standards-based, does not depend on IP addresses, does
> not require that the user check mail before being able to send mail,
> and permits positive tracking of message origination (in case the
> message turns out to be spam, for example).
SMTP AUTH is almost ubiquitous already - almost all the current crop of
desktop OS mail clients now support it.
I believe the hard part is convincing people that they should update to
appropriate versions of their MTA.
_WHY_ are people updating from sendmail 8.6 to 8.9.3 instead of 8.11 or
8.12? 8.9 isn't supported anymore for starters....
AB
