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* Re: Using Netscape Messenger Service as SMTP server - LDAP authentication?
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@ 2003-03-17 13:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2003-03-17 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)


Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> writes:

> "This means that users may elect to send authentication credentials to
> the LDAP server before performing a search."
>
> Replace 'performing a search' with 'trying to send mail' and you get
> the picture.
>
> Now the question: Is there any way to make gnus do the trick?

I haven't heard of anybody implementing SMTP "security" through LDAP
before, so probably not.  I mean, it's probably not been implemented
yet.  :-)

> My best guess would be exploiting a hook and sending the
> authentication before mailing.

Yup.  There's an LDAP library for Emacs you can probably use.  I
forget where you can get it from, though...

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