North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:42:29PM -0500, Dan Ellis wrote: > I'm looking for comments on whether this is generally seen as a positive > change or a waste of time (ie - will the next virus or worm gleam your > SMTP username and password from Outlook Express and use it to > replicate/SPAM)? I've only seen one virus or worm so far that has done this (we are a hosting provider, so any users who use our mail servers are using SMTP authentication). > Is anyone aware of any well known mail clients that do not support SMTP > authentication (Unix, Windows or Mac)? Not many of the major ones. There are some differences in the authentication methods supported, however - many don't support methods other than LOGIN and / or PLAIN. There are also (surprise) some client-specific bugs with various mailers... Lookout Distress (version 4) for example, has some problems; see the "broken_sasl_auth_clients" config directive if you're using Postfix (google for that string to find out more information about this particular problem). -- "Since when is skepticism un-American? Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same..." (Sleater-Kinney - "Combat Rock")
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