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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ken Hohhof" writes: >> Why would netscape 4 for Mac choke and not other versions? I think you >> may be chasing a strawman there. > >AFAIK all versions of Netscape 4 have the problem that if AUTH is offerred, >the client must be configured to authenticate. The only reason I mentioned >Macs is that Netscape 4 is the most common mail client on Mac OS/8 and >OS/9. Many Mac users hate Microsoft so much they won't use OE. Now >with OS/X, Apple has its own mail client which was pretty spartan in version >1.1 but is more full-featured in version 1.2. Right. The usual solution to this is to change the SMTP server so that it only offers AUTH to the client if they don't already qualify to relay due to the IP address they're coming from or the POP-B4-SMTP database. - -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+Qvl7oayJfLoDSdIRAgGkAKDDPET3ZY7ID33r1Pk+wSaDitjD6ACfSgR2 NJM4cM4osIaF2S/hKoIiCvU= =dCY0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
