>Don't shoot me for following a post several days old, but I thought the
>"Disable SMTP AUTH reporting" only disabled the feature that responds to
>requests if a user name is a user on the server,
wrong, it does exactly what it says (in the SMTP session mgs
announced by the server to client as what SMTP features are supported)
SMTP AUTH is always available to any SMTP client, even if not "reported".
>disabling results in no-one being able to verify a user to use for
>spam purposes.
nope. Some SMTP clients need to see SMTP AUTH announced by the server
before they attempt it.
>I didn't think it has anything to do with actual authorization or
>requiring login.
It doesn't, it only has to do with reporting or not, nothing to do
with the function.
Len
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