From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33732
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: smtp authentication (sendmail relay)
Date: 17 Dec 2000 13:01:21 -0800
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <m2ae9upxsu.fsf@gnus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing>
References: <200012170829.eBH8T2Z30966@newsguy.com>
	<m33dfnatxd.fsf@peorth.gweep.net> <ilulmteki00.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169781 26626 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:09:41 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:09:41 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: "(ding)" <ding@gnus.org>
Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49])
	by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCA8D049D
	for <jason@mastaler.com>; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:01:53 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5])
	by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB25852;
	Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:01:53 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:01:15 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged))
	by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA06707
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:01:03 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from freedom.LABridge.com (home.LABridge.com [206.117.169.5])
	by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E95D049D
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:01:29 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: from reader.labridge.com (DSL02-160.LABridge.com [206.117.4.160])
	by freedom.LABridge.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14943;
	Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:01:36 -0800
Original-Received: (from reader@localhost)
	by reader.labridge.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA31982;
	Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:01:21 -0800
Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "17 Dec 2000 19:41:35 +0100"
Original-Lines: 15
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33732
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33732

Simon Josefsson <sj@extundo.com> writes:

> Harry might use telnet to find out if it's supported by the server or
> not, just say "ehlo foo" to the server, and notice if STARTTLS or AUTH
> CRAM-MD5 is part of the response.

[...] snipped examples

Newsguy, bars telnet access to port 25 and has for a couple years.
All you can get there is no response to commands.

So I guess there is no way to set authentication info in sendmail.cf or
something similar eh.