>> >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.

i think that's where pkgsrc comes in.  it's a little more "agile" than
the base system.  the postfix from pkgsrc can use sasl.  i dunno about
the sendmail in pkgsrc.

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