mallet@??? (Suresh Ramasubramanian) wrote on 05.01.01 in <20010105203119.A23298@???>:
> Frank Elsner rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > Why this ? Isn't SMTP AUTH (RFC 2554) the better solution ?
>
> For roaming users, yes. However, pop before smtp has the advantage of
> working across a whole lot more clients (try explaining to someone using a
> win 3.1 mailer ... yeah, they do exist) and is also easier to set up for the
> user (he's just got to check his pop box before relaying instead of
> accepting certificates etc)
Well, there are other user identification options. For example, I believe
T-Online (not using Exim AFAIK) has their MTAs ask their RADIUS servers
about user identity.
This is where the following headers are from:
Received: from khms.westfalen.de (340048396503-0001@???) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com
with esmtp id 14EH1q-0x5JXkC; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 21:30:30 +0100
X-Sender: 340048396503-0001@???
MfG Kai
