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  3. June 2004

RE: Back to Reverse DNS

>You see, there's no official authentication involved in SMTP, but POP3
has
>a username and password associated with it.  So, when you log in with
POP,
>it maks your IP address as "trusted" so that SMTP will relay whatever
it
>is that you have to send. 

Scott,

It's not necessary to authenticate with POP to have an authenticated
SMTP session. There's an AUTH command in SMTP added in RFC2554
(technically it's in ESMTP).

-Walden


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