Subject: Re: smtp auth?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/16/2002 14:05:56
>> >> 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.

of course it's easier to say "no, don't do that" than "stop, i will do
that".  the fact that no one is stepping up to do the "write" thing
doesn't (imho) make it right to do the wrong thing.

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