On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, rstarkov wrote: > Ah right. Yes, it's qmail. It appears that RFC3848 is not directly supported > by my managed server... It runs Plesk, and all I can find are a couple of > lone voices asking for this to become supported (met with silence or people > not knowing what on earth is being talked about). It appears to be a > comparatively little known rfc :/ > > Thanks very much for helping me figure out what exactly is wrong here. If I > feel brave enough to upgrade whatever needs upgrading by myself then I'll > know where to start; fortunately the managed server comes with such an > option. >
FWIW, sendmail & postfix both get it right. There's a patch that can be applied to qmail to make it work too. (see: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html##PATCHES ) -- Dave Funk University of Iowa <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include <std_disclaimer.h> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{
