postfix issue...

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat Mar 6 23:02:07 UTC 2010


On 03/05/2010 09:21 AM, Craig White wrote:
> 
> I didn't realize that Postfix uses SASL nomenclature to define outbound
> smtp authentication which really isn't using SASL at all but rather is
> just using SSL and/or TLS for the provided user/password and whatever
> internal technology Gmail uses is not relevant or transparent to the
> person/server that is authenticating beyond the SSL/TLS protocols.
> 
> It seems to me that Postfix is just creating confusion by calling it
> SASL.
> 
Actually, it uses the SASL library as well.

Mikkel
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