Subject: Re: smtp auth?
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/16/2002 14:08:15
Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> writes:
> >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.

As a practical matter, it is now very difficult to use NetBSD as the
mail server for mobile clients that need to use the SMTP AUTH
extensions. That's a serious problem.

Perry