On 4/27/05, Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any event the malware is already ahead of port 25 blocking and is > > leveraging ISP smarthosting. SMTP-Auth is the pill to ease this pain/ > > Really smtp-auth will solve it? or do most windows mua's cache your > password?
They sure do cache the password. But with smtp auth, the infected user is stamped in the email headers, and all over my MTA logs, when a bot that hijacks his PC starts spamming. I can easily remove auth privileges for his account, and/or limit his access to a walled garden till such time as he cleans up - without taking the trouble to match timestamps of the spam + dig into radius logs Easier to identify, and easier to lock down, than unauthenticated access --srs