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


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