This was added very early on to accommodate certain mail clients that did not authenticate very well. For those of you that have been around a while you can remember we had this problem with older versions of NS and the only way that Netscape users could send mail was to disable the reporting so NS wouldn't try.
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] smtp authentication not working > > SMTP AUTH facility is never turned off, just the announcement, but it > would > > be dumb mail client that tried to do SMTP AUTH if it was not announced. > > > > Len > > Agreed, but I did say that I was splitting hairs :) The more basic question > is: What use is there in disabling the announcement if the capability is > always there? Eric wrote that the most common e-mail clients will not > attempt SMTP AUTH if the server doesn't announce its support of it and I > take his word for it. Then, disabling AUTH announcement would seem to only > help in cases where one does not want clients to AUTH, which amounts to > running an open relay, n'est-ce pas? > > Guy > > > > > 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/ > 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/
