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SMTP authentication for broadband providers
From: "Dan Ellis" <ellis () corp ptd net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:42:29 -0500
Greetings, We're a medium sized regional MSO/broadband provider with 200k+ mailboxes, strongly considering enabling SMTP authentication on our customer-facing SMTP mail servers. We feel this is the next logical step to minimize our users UCE/virus impact (we already tarpit, virus scan, UCE scan, subscribe to RBL's, reject prior to SMTP close). I'm looking for comments on whether this is generally seen as a positive change or a waste of time (ie - will the next virus or worm gleam your SMTP username and password from Outlook Express and use it to replicate/SPAM)? Is anyone aware of any well known mail clients that do not support SMTP authentication (Unix, Windows or Mac)? Thanks in advance. --Dan -- Daniel Ellis, CTO, PenTeleData (610)826-9293 "The only way to predict the future is to invent it." --Alan Kay
Current thread:
- SMTP authentication for broadband providers Dan Ellis (Feb 10)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Will Yardley (Feb 10)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Adi Linden (Feb 10)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Dave Crocker (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Alex Bligh (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Sean Donelan (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Will Yardley (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Sean Donelan (Feb 11)
- Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers Dave Crocker (Feb 11)