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Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:25:09 -0400
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MTA authentications
Message-ID:  <200106100225.f5A2PAU52712@lists.unixathome.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010609120621.A1123@zippy.mybox.zip>

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Alex: I wasn't subscribed to chat when I sent out my original post 
message.  But I found your reply in the archives:

You wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:45:47AM +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > I've contacted them (via phone, they're not exactly contactable via
> > email) to discuss this with them. The response I got was "our mail 
> > server requires authentication".
> 
> Are you sure you've got the TLS stuff setup properly on your end with
> certificate and all?

To my knowledge, there is not TLS stuff on my mailserver.  I've never 
heard of TLS before this incident. It's all news to me.

Is it unreasonable of them to expect everyone else (i.e. me) to be set up 
like that?

I guess my point is this: if they expect the rest of the world to be "TLS-
enabled" (forgive my terminology, I don't know what else to call it), and 
communicate only with such mail servers, how big is their universe?  I 
thought the [defacto] mail standard was smtp. 


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