On Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 10:55:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
> On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 21:15:22, Marc Funaro wrote: >> The email looks like it's coming from the server itself, but since 587 is >> SMTP AUTH only, we have control over who's sending using that port > On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 21:52:02, Matt wrote: >> The RFC is AUTH-only, but not in practice until IMail supports it. For > Which RFC are you guys referring to? > If its RFC 2476 Message Submission it does not *require* authentication. > Look at section "6. Optional Actions" where it says > "The MSA MAY do any of the following:" > followed by section "6.2. Require Authentication" > "The MSA MAY issue an error response to the MAIL FROM command if the > session has not been authenticated." > The key word "MAY" means its optional. Or is it stating that it is optional to give an error if the connection is not authenticated. I just turned on port 587 on our backup MX server to test and YES authentication IS required. As soon as I issued the MAIL FROM, the server responded with the '530 ... you must authenticate ...' message. ----- Duane Hill Sr E-Mail Administrator http://www.yournetplus.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
