Postfix SMTP Auth

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Jan 14 18:10:28 UTC 2004


Am Mi, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Roger Grosswiler um 15:02:

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> hello,
> 
> i had the same and never really got it working at 100%. maybe this was,
> because i was changing from smtp-auth to pop-before-smtp
> authentification-method.
> 
> unfortunately, this is not built-in, you need a additional package, but it
> is installed within 5-10 minutes....AND IT WORKS!
> 
> you can get pop-before-smtp on http://www.sourceforge.net (works also with
> imap.
> 
> It's just another method to authenticate....

POP-before-SMTP is not a real solution. It was a former kind of hack
when many clients had not the possibility to activate SMTP AUTH. But
nowadays SMTP AUTH should be used as POP-before-SMTP has some
disadvantages.

Alexander


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