Re: [CentOS] pop before smtp

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:50, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

Alan Hodgson ahodgson@simkin.ca wrote:

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Sadly, SMTP auth on Postfix _feels_ like an even bigger hack, due to the joy that is SASL. It does work well once you get it setup, but man it's a pain.

Actually it's not. It's a proper way to do it.

Most people think SASL is a PITA. But most of the pain is standard procedure for public key authentication.

The pain part has to do with having to recompile postfix to have the feature. I think it is already in sendmail as shipped - you just have to rebuild the sendmail.cf and run saslauthd. But there is really nothing wrong with smtp login or plain authentication as long as it is done over ssl.