Mail station 120 v4.05e and SMTP (non) authentication (Jul 23, 2005)

From: "John R. Hogerhuis" Jul 23, 2005
From: "Carl Hauser" Jul 23, 2005
From: "John R. Hogerhuis" Jul 23, 2005

Subject: Mail station 120 v4.05e and SMTP (non) authentication

From: "Carl Hauser" <chauserx@...>

Jul 23, 2005

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The only obvious solution is "get another ISP". I expect that ISP's will increasingly require AUTH for sending mail so the useful lifetime of the MS as an email appliance may be limited.

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From: "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger@...>

Jul 23, 2005

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 16:07 +0000, Carl Hauser wrote:

I had the same problem with NetZero.

I think unless we replace the mail client with new firmware you are
probably right about limited utility of the built in client.

Of course you could set up a linux dial-up server with whatever settings
you like.

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From: "Carl Hauser" <chauserx@...>

Jul 23, 2005

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There is an smtpd.py package in the python distribution that will do what you need--though anyone using it should take steps to avoid creating an open mail relay and suddenly finding themselves the purveyor of other people's spam.

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From: "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger@...>

Jul 23, 2005

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:31 +0000, Carl Hauser wrote:

Excellent point, Carl! I hadn't thought of that.

So one or more of us could set up a proxy server we could bounce our
SMTP packets off of to do the auth. Then we could use whatever dialup
server we like.

Anyone have ideas on what we could do to avoid becoming an open relay
since the client doesn't support smtp authentication?