From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
Subject: Re: smtp authentication (sendmail relay)
Date: 17 Dec 2000 11:34:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33dfnatxd.fsf@peorth.gweep.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:29:02 -0800 (PST)"
* Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> on Sun, 17 Dec 2000
| In fact, not really sure where those smtp negotiations get handled.
If newsguy is doing what I suspect they are doing, they don't.
Authenticated SMTP hooks into POP authentication. When you authenticate
yourself to the POP server, a flag is set that allows you to use that
host's SMTP server to relay mail. That flag is cleared after some set
period.
It is probably a bit more complex than this, but this is what the end users
see.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-17 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-17 8:29 Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 9:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 16:53 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 19:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-19 0:13 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-19 1:51 ` Glenn Shiffer
2000-12-19 2:41 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 10:51 ` jas
2000-12-17 16:34 ` Stainless Steel Rat [this message]
2000-12-17 18:41 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-12-17 21:01 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 22:45 ` Colin Walters
2000-12-17 23:06 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 21:24 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 22:15 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 22:26 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:31 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 23:41 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:02 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-18 7:49 ` Steinar Bang
2000-12-17 21:29 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:45 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:03 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 23:20 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:27 ` Russ Allbery
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