On Jan 30, 2005, at 9:27 PM, sims wrote:
Also, won't some servers (a very small percentage in my experience) still require authentication?
The answer is no.
Think about it, have you ever entered the authentication password for the people you were sending an outgoing email to? You have entered yours because your server will not relay until it know who you are. But it accepts mail for you from anyone. If you have never provided that authentication password, how would your mail server provide it? It would not know it either. The answer is that there are no email clients that I am aware of where you enter an authentication password for each email in the TO field of your outgoing message. And if you don't do it, how would your server provide it to their server?
SMTP servers accept mail from anyone if it is addressed to someone on their server. Most will not relay from another server and most will not accept mail from their own users if the mail is destined for anyone off their server.
Kee Nethery
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