Re: [PLUG] OT: question about mail headers

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:47, Mental wrote:
> 
> Thats the weakass athentication I use to relay through hades. :)
> 
> If I were using mozilla, you'd see this:
> Received: from neverlight.com (pc76int2.vwrsp.com [66.54.172.10])
> (authenticated bits=0) by hades.neverlight.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with
> ESMTP id g2KL2dpB006332 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128
> verify=NO) for <mental@neverlight.com>; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:02:46 -0500

Ah. I use TLS and SMTP AUTH with postfix, but mine doesn't seem to
insert any such info in my headers. Perhaps because my mail server is
not making a TLS connection with the PLUG mail server, it's just me
making a TLS connection to my own mail server?

> There are several types of authentication. The most basic and
> unfortunately the most common is PLAIN, or LOGIN. This is just user

I use CRAM-MD5, from Evolution 1.0.2, too.

> And no, this isn't Sendmail specific. Exchange should support it.
> Postfix does (as far as I'm aware), and so should exim. I use sendmail
> because I understand it and it works. The only difficult bits are
> getting SASL, and LDAP linked to sendmail properly. And even that's not
> too bad.

>From my mail log:
Mar 20 23:15:22 workhorse postfix/smtpd[7787]: TLS connection established from 
minas-aran.mike-leone.com[192.168.100.40]: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)
Mar 20 23:15:22 workhorse postfix/smtpd[7787]: connect from minas-aran.mike-leone.com[192.168.100.40]
Mar 20 23:15:22 workhorse postfix/smtpd[7787]: 2658AA041: client=minas-aran.mike-leone.com[192.168.100.40], 
sasl_method=CRAM-MD5, sasl_username=turgon

 
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