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> 
> 
>> So, Mr. Admin, setup your laptop to use SSL to your SMTP and POP
>> server and authenticate with a client side certificate on your
>> laptop. Welcome to the 21st century. You may, however, need a little
>> more infrastructure than you can pull from your favourite distribution
>> box.
> 
> 
>         RFC 2487        STARTTLS
>         RFC 2554        SMTP-Auth, + M$ Exchange / + Netscape
>                         ( + a bunch of other authenticator methods )
> 
>         Under encryption, plaintext username + password login.
>         The IETF protocols DO NOT support plaintext login for
>         obvious security reasons.
> 
>         No hazzles about autenticating by certificates.
> 
>         Availability of the feature is probably excidingly rare..

Actually TLS/SASL is exactly what I use on my systems and I offer it to 
whomever needs it.  The way I do it is at 
http://blue-labs.org/clue/sendmail.html.

-d


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