Torgeir Veimo wrote:
>
> Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
> >
> > here a forward of my mail to achieve what you ask for:
>
> I applied these changes, and it requires me to authenticate. I will
> probably add the check for the REQUIREAUTH env variable later, like the
> other patch I tried does.
>
> However, the netscape messenger I use at work doesn't seem to try to
> authenticate at all, even if it receives the 503 AUTH reply. Isn't this
> an RFC somewhere and shouldn't netscape really try to authenticate when
> it receives the reply?
>
> There's also a firewall between the mailserver and my netscape client,
> so it may also have something to do with it..
Ok, this was the cause, directly I get
torgeir@ejc:~ > telnet localhost 25
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ejc.ecomda.com ESMTP
EHLO atlanta.intern.ecomda.de
250-ejc.ecomda.com
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-STARTTLS
250-SIZE 0
250 8BITMIME
but through the firewall I get
Escape character is '^]'.
220 gatekeeper.intern.ecomda.de Generic SMTP handler
EHLO atlanta.intern.ecomda.de
500 Command unrecognized
HELO atlanta.intern.ecomda.de
250 gatekeeper.intern.ecomda.de talking to trabant.intern.ecomda.de
([192.168.75.163])
How I really hate that firewall! (Raptor)
Just a sidenote; shouldn't this mailing list set the reply-to address to
the mailing list address? Or is there a DJB'ish reason for that as well?
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- Torgeir
