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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23584 Need an optional SMTP AUTH Summary: Need an optional SMTP AUTH Product: James Version: 2.1 Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows XP Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: Other Component: James Core AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The SMTP server should support "optional SMTP AUTH mode" which acts as follows: - When client connects, server will prompt for AUTH. - Even if client failed to properly authentication, SMTP server continues transaction (but remembers the failure) - During the rest of the transaction it should be possible to check if the client is authenticated or not. Justification: Say I get an incoming message which gets flaged as SPAM. I always want to inform the sender of what happened just in case there has been a mistake and he needs to know I did *not* receive his mail. The problem is that often spammers relay messages from <my address> to <some remote address> which I bounce as SPAM and as a result I get 100s of notifications daily that "my" mail bounced. If optional SMTP auth were implemented I'd configure James to do the following: - If mail is bounced as SPAM and the FROM address is local and the client is authenticated, send a notification; otherwise - Only send a notification if the FROM address is non-local Please let me know what you think. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
