Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:23:37 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: goodbye |
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:34:04PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com> writes: > > >Uh... use their ISP relay service anyway??? > >I take my laptop all over, to lot's of my clients locations, and if I > >could relay through their servers, then I had better give them some good > >advice.. Some places I just pick an available IP and it might not be in > >the allowed relay list. And this happens when I am in M$ or Linux.. > > So, Mr. Admin, setup your laptop to use SSL to your SMTP and POP > server and authenticate with a client side certificate on your > laptop. Welcome to the 21st century. You may, however, need a little > more infrastructure than you can pull from your favourite distribution > box.
RFC 2487 STARTTLS RFC 2554 SMTP-Auth, + M$ Exchange / + Netscape ( + a bunch of other authenticator methods )
Under encryption, plaintext username + password login. The IETF protocols DO NOT support plaintext login for obvious security reasons.
No hazzles about autenticating by certificates.
Availability of the feature is probably excidingly rare..
> Regards > Henning > -- > Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer > INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de
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