In reply to: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED] e.org&msgNo=6698
Bill Shannon wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Actually, I was re-reading http://james.apache.org/rfclist/smtp/rfc2554.txt. > > [The] sending server can use: > > > > MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > to indicate that it authenticated frodo (or trusts a server that had > > similarly relayed for an authenticated sender). [clip] > > [Unfortunately, ] JavaMail's SMTP transport doesn't appear to support the > > MAIL FROM AUTH= extension. [clip] > > Something to pass onto Bill Shannon, and a simple change (JavaMail already > > supports a similar extension, MAIL FROM RET=), but I'm afraid that we may > > have missed the window to get it into JavaMail. > You did. :-( > > Am I right in assuming this only needs to be set by servers that are > relaying messages? > > Should this "submitter" information be an attribute of an SMTPMessage > object, or should it be set in the SMTPTransport object to be used > for subsequent sends? It seems like it should be attached to the > message, not the transport. Correct. After the transport authenticates as normal (and currently supported), it has to know (and use if found) the authenticated sender information for each message. And, yes, this is something needed only by a relay, and only where one can have an unbroken chain of authentication. --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
