Subject: SMTP Authentication

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:42:27 -0700

Howdy-
    My university recently started requiring SMTP authentication. Does 
pine 4.05 (Unix) support this? I tried changing my .pinerc file by 
adding my username to the end of my smtp-server line (smtp-server = 
smtp.example/user=user.name.here) but evidently that value is a sys-
admin defined value. At this point I am just wondering if it is 
possible and how it can be done. I can talk to my sysadmin later if he 
needs to do something. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
     Jerad

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:55:50 -0800 (PST)

There are two types of SMTP authentication that I know of.  The first,
which you're trying to enable, is regular password authentication.  The
second is POP-before-SMTP (or something like that), and requires you to
first access your INBOX with POP3 before sending something with SMTP.

If the method your school uses is the first, then what you're trying to do
should work when your sysadmin allows you to modify your SMTP server.  But
rather than just asking the sysadmin to let you change the value, I'd tell
him what you're trying to do (enable SMTP authentication).  He might know
how best to do that for your SMTP server.

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