Why are only admins allowed to AUTH to lmtpd?

Amos Gouaux +archive.info-cyrus at utdallas.edu
Fri Jan 3 15:04:13 EST 2003


>>>>> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 14:55:10 -0500 (EST),
>>>>> Rob Siemborski <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu> (rs) writes:

rs> There's no reason regular users should be submitting to the LMTP server,
rs> they should be submitting using SMTP to an SMTP server, and then the LMTP
rs> server trusts the SMTP server.  This (admitedly marginaly) simplifies the
rs> authorization code in lmtpd.

How does the posting ("p") right fit in?

-- 
Amos





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