Re: IMAP before relay
Nate Duehr wrote:
Ward Willats wrote:
Yeah, everyone _should_ use AUTH (and heck, SSL), but for a boutique
server with few relayers, pop-before-smtp still works very well, thank
Anyone know of any good way to implement IMAP before relay for those of
us that left POP3 in the 80's where it belongs? ;-)
The recently mentioned pop-before-smtp script works quite good, albeit a
bit contradictory, for IMAP-logins as well. And it's already packaged in
Debian together with (IIRC) a couple of good examples for well known
IMAP-servers.
But just as Jérôme also points out, the nature of IMAP makes this method
less fit for control of relaying. You *will* start noticing one or both
of the following side-effects after prolonged use:
* Your users curse loudly and call you up to "fix the mail server"
each time they finish writing a long e-mail
* Your users, after being educated several times, develop an
instictive "Save draft, restart mail client, Edit draft, Send"-routine,
which in the end makes them feel reluctant towards using your system as
a whole ;-)
//conny
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