Subject: Re: smtp auth?
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/16/2002 14:02:30
Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> writes:
> >> the installed sendmail seems to lack the SMTP AUTH feature.
> >> Is there any option to add this from pkgsrc?
> >> Or shall I compile the source from sendmail.org?
> >> Any other good options for win 0utlook clients? (Remote with no fixed IP)
> >
> >Does our built in sendmail use the Cyrus SASL code if present? If so,
> >we could add the Cyrus SASL libraries to the mainline.
> 
> i believe the common consensus is that the cyrus sasl libraries should
> not be brought onto the main line, but should be rewritten.  sasl
> starts with "simple", after all, so it should be easy, right?

Yes, but no one seems to have taken on the job of doing that, which
makes me wonder if anyone is, in fact, going to do that.

Perry