Re: [Sheflug] am I on yet?

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Richard Stevenson wrote:

> SMTP AUTH is a way of authenticating yourself to the mail system; the
> biggest plus is that MTAs that support it can be configured to allow you
> to relay from anywhere in the world of you authenticate first.  It's cool
> :-)  RFC2554 for more info.
> 
> STARTTLS involves negotiating with the MTA to transfer the mail within an
> SSLv3/TLSv1 session.  Also really cool, and should be required if you want
> to use AUTH with stupid clients like Netscape or OutHouse, which basically
> send your username and password in clear text during the AUTH part of the
> transaction.  Better clients use MD5 challenge-response systems, but that
> in turn requires a shared secret...
> 
> Now I'm just waiting for them to implement ATRN, which combines TURN with
> strong authentication (a la AUTH) - finally, batched SMTP without it
> being some strange hack... :-)

 IIRC, there is an addition to qmail for auth and the like.

 See http://cr.yp.to/ and freshmeat.

 Sorry, about to goto bed...to lazy to look up the exact pages :-)

 Baz
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