You're absolutely right. My isp (Sisna) switched to smtp authentication
and I looked for alternatives. I like mozilla best and am using it to
send this email. I wrote one of the maintainers of kmail and asked
about future plans for smtp authentication and he said "Maybe it will be
in KDE 2.2".
Dave Sherman wrote:
> Perhaps someone will correct me on this, but I believe SMTP-Authentication
> is *not* supported in kmail. Your mail server will need to be set up to
> relay for you -- this is (generally) highly insecure, and makes it easy to
> spam (even with other safeguards in place, such as using a RBL server, or
> only relaying for specific networks), but many ISP's still do it this way.
>
> Dave
>
> On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:22, thus spake Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA:
>
>
>>>Anyone,
>>>
>>In the setup of Kmail for receiving email I can choose sendmail or smtp.
>>When I select smtp I find no way to identify my smtp user.
>>
>>If I cannot setup kmail to identify it self how can I send email?
>>
>>Jon H
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