John Murtari <jmurtari@thebook.com> writes:

> Andrzej 
>         Well, I quite agree. But our reason for not moving is
> an installed base of thousands (as a web host provider) with a lot
> of 'non computer' people with existing email setups that 'work'.
>
>         About a year ago we actually prepared some test systems to
> support SMTP AUTH and had things working.  The 'gotcha' was we couldn't
> get sendmail to do BOTH, i.e. if SMTP auth works, let them through --
> if we have their IP address in POP-before-SMTP, let them through.
>
>         Email is the MOST sensitive thing for our customers, and since
> switching to SMTP auth was going to be all all-or-nothing change, it
> was decided to wait.  We just knew that as much as we tried to prep
> people for transition, many would not be ready.
>
>         Now, if someone has a potential mc or cf change for sendmail
> that would allow it to support BOTH during a transition period, we'd
> love to hear the details and we could get it done.  As I was writing
> this I did a quick Google and it seems that supporting both is possible,
> but could not find an example of .mc or .cf changes.  Anybody have it?

I can seen no reason prohibiting the two to work together but I would
bet you are unwilling to start new round of tests before January :-)
[It could be a strange interaction with yet another non standard element
]

BTW I have another 'checkup' question:
Do you plan to migrate functionality provided by check_local in
sendmail.cf to milter?
AFAIK check_local has never been supported by sendmail.org and it is no
longer supported by the author(s).

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