* Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org>: > On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:30 AM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > > >What would we have to do, to make port 587 the default port? In > >section 4 the > >RFC says, a MSA MUST do all of the following: > > > >1. General Submission Rejection Code > >2. Ensure All Domains Are Fully-Qualified > >3. Require Authentication > > > >To cut it short: 1. and 2. are trivial (at least in Postfix and I don't > >know the others MTAs well enough to tell for them too). 3. requires to add > >SMTP AUTH functionality to Mailman's SMTP client. > > > >How should we implement SMTP AUTH in the MM SMTP client? > > > >I propose for a start plaintext (PLAIN, LOGIN) and shared-secret mechanisms > >(CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5) should be added to the SMTP client. Those are the > >ones used most widely in every day SMTP AUTH. > > > >Later implementations could add GSSAPI and EXTERNAL. If plaintext > >mechanisms are added we should also consider to add STARTTLS functionality > >to MM's SMTP client to shield credentials while they are sent in a > >plaintext authentication session. > > Should we decide to do this, changing the port number is easy. > There's already a configuration variable for this (currently set of > course to 25). > > As for implementing SMTP AUTH, we are limited by what Python's > smtplib supports. From a cursory inspection of the module in Python > 2.6, it looks like it supports PLAIN, LOGIN, and CRAM-MD5. That may > mean that the only thing we need to add to Mailman is plumbing for > setting the user name and password in the config file.
Sounds like a thing rather easily done. > Please open a bug on the Mailman project in Launchpad for this. done. <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/490044> p...@rick -- state of mind Digitale Kommunikation http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563
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