Re: [OT] Re: goodbye

[Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:34:04PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com> writes:
> 
> >Uh... use their ISP relay service anyway???
> >I take my laptop all over, to lot's of my clients locations, and if I
> >could relay through their servers, then I had better give them some good
> >advice.. Some places I just pick an available IP and it might not be in
> >the allowed relay list.  And this happens when I am in M$ or Linux..
> 
> So, Mr. Admin, setup your laptop to use SSL to your SMTP and POP
> server and authenticate with a client side certificate on your
> laptop. Welcome to the 21st century. You may, however, need a little
> more infrastructure than you can pull from your favourite distribution
> box.

        RFC 2487        STARTTLS
        RFC 2554        SMTP-Auth, + M$ Exchange / + Netscape
                        ( + a bunch of other authenticator methods )

        Under encryption, plaintext username + password login.
        The IETF protocols DO NOT support plaintext login for
        obvious security reasons.

        No hazzles about autenticating by certificates.

        Availability of the feature is probably excidingly rare..

> 	Regards
> 		Henning
> -- 
> Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen       -- Geschaeftsfuehrer
> INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH     hps@intermeta.de

/Matti Aarnio