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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

Top posting corrected.

On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:22:48PM -0300, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
> 
> 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > Lee Forrest wrote:
> >> smtp     athena.simple.net:leeforrest AT simple.net:xxxxxx  
> > 
> > Do you need authorization for smtp?
> > I seem to recall someone saying authorization
> > for smtp didn't work on BL3.  I don't know this 
> > from personal experience because the smtp server
> > (from my ISP) does not do authorization.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven

> You are right:
>
> Pmail has no authenticated SMTP
>
> The configuration file lets you have a user and password for SMTP.

Which is pointless without authentication. And misleading.

>
> But the documents stress that SMTP authentication is a future upgrade.
>
> Alejandro Lieber
> Rosario  Argentina

The manpage I have doesn't stress it. It doesn't even mention it.
There are two, contradictory, hints regarding the issue:

1. The config file's option to include them for SMTP, which
   strongly suggests that it has that feature.

2.  From the manpage:

 -u, --auth
       Specifies a pair of authority word, the log-in identity
       and the password, seperated by colon (:).  They are used
       to talking with incoming message server.  You can just
 
Which suggests that it only available for POP.

Lee

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