[Dovecot] Sending email using IMAP

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Fri Nov 3 22:37:08 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:00 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Steven F Siirila wrote: 
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:36:13AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
[...]
> > > IMAP requires a password. SMTP it's optional.
> > 
> > Not at the University of Minnesota.
> > We require ESMTP STARTTLS/AUTH over the standard mail submission port (587).

The question is: How do you enforce it on submission via port 25?

> OK - but the rest of the world varies from what the University of
> Minnesota does.

Not all of it. And if, then it is their choice.
Perhaps you should submit an RFC for a better SMTP requiring
authentication and other anti-spam meassures.

	Bernd
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