Re: comments on draft-gellens-pop3ext-02.txt

At 6:48 PM -0500 3/19/98, Steve Atkins wrote:

>Whilst fixing SMTP to require authentication would be ideal that's
>a lot less likely to happen than standardising a POP3 or IMAP send
>extension. (Not neccesarily using XTND XMIT type protocol - as you say,
>it's broken).

I disagree; there is a proposal for an AUTH command in SMTP (using
SASL) and I haven't heard any objections to it.