>It is considered very bad manners in a client to try 
>SMTP extensions that are not advertised...

Really? I guess I need to add some smarts to my Baton Mail program (right 
now it just tries each auth type it knows of until it finds one that 
works).

Is there actually any harm in just trying each type in turn? (and not 
reading for supported types). I had looked at it in terms of, parsing the 
types was hard to add to my program logic (early design flaw on my part), 
so who was I going to annoy... a server? It just didn't seem worth the 
effort. BUT... if there is possible harm from not checking (such as the 
server may reject me after the first wrong type), then I might have to 
look at working it in.

-chris

<http://www.mythtech.net>


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