Hi Gunnar,
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 05:54:30PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Uhmm... I understand your point. Now, Swaks is IMO (and quoting from
> the manpage) "the all-purpose smtp transaction *tester*" (emphasis
> mine).
Sure.
> Using Swaks as a mailer is IMO an abuse.
No objection, either. I never use swaks as mailer.
I use it to test my mail servers. And sometimes I also have to test
SMTP AUTH. With real existing user accounts and real passwords. And I
want to be able to use swaks for that testing case, too.
> Of course, echoing a password is wrong for a mailer - but for a
> testing utility, I do not feel that meddling with the output is a
> good idea.
Well, even if I test such stuff with my test user, I do neither want
coworkers nor users waiting behind my back to fix "their e-mail
problem" to see my personal password with which I'm testing our mail
server to see if SMTP AUTH works correctly. Especially not hours later
if that xterm is still open open and still shows the swaks output.
Sure there may be cases where someone wants to be sure to have typed
the correct password, so making it optional is perfectly fine. But in
my case I'm usually confident that I typed my password correctly
(especially the one from my normal user which is why I tend to test
SMTP AUTH with that one instead of my seldomly used test user), but I
don't want others to see it.
I hope it's now clear why I regard this as a not so unimportant issue.
Kind regards, Axel
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