On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Ken Hohhof wrote: > If you primarily provide Internet connectivity as we do, the best policy is > to only relay for clients on your network.
In these days of spammers hijacking winduhs proxies and spamming malware (viruses), with more and worse to come, there's a lot to be said in favour of requiring SMTP AUTH for everyone. > We don't like SMTP AUTH because it is not practical to make all our > customers use it just to accomodate the few who need it. I guess that depends on your customers. If they can set a pop3 password, they can setup AMTP AUTH. > And if we enable > it on our server, we have problems with our many Mac users with Netscape 4.x > clients which seem to choke if the server offers AUTH but the client is not > set up for it. Why would netscape 4 for Mac choke and not other versions? I think you may be chasing a strawman there. AB
