On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:50, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
