On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:50:16 +1300 (NZDT), Alan Brown wrote:

>On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>The problem is that I see people pushing DRAC and other out-of-band
>solutions as the best way to do things.

I hope I didn't give that impression.

>SMTP AUTH is almost ubiquitous already - almost all the current crop of
>desktop OS mail clients now support it.

Which ones are you including? Mine (PMMail) doesn't. The current owner
of the code claims an update is forthcoming, but has given no schedule.
IMAP is at the top of their list. I've lobbied for SMTP AUTH and
encrypted transport.

>_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....

"If it ain't broke...." If you're not a full-time admin, it takes time
to learn the migration issues. Migrating from 8.9 means files move
around. What changes going from 8.10 to 8.11?

Ken
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