At 11:09 AM -0800 11/15/01, Pete Stephenson  imposed structure on a 
stream of electrons, yielding:
>>on 11/15/01 11:57 AM, Pete Stephenson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>>  I've just taken over administration of a SIMS server, and I've 
>>>>discovered it
>>>>  is an open relay.
>>>
>>>  Have you ticked the "Relay for clients only" checkbox?
>>
>>
>>Well, I've got it working.  After upgrading to 1.8b8, I had to turn on
>>"Relay for Clients Only" *and* "Advertise AUTH Capability.
>
>Well, I'm not sure you need to tick the "advertise AUTH" button -- 
>it'll work automatically. Either way, it works. :)


Right. But if you want RFC-compliant clients to use AUTH you need to 
advertise it. It is considered very bad manners in a client to try 
SMTP extensions that are not advertised...
-- 
Bill Cole                                  
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