[Info-vax] "SEND MAIL" doesn't send mail, mail stays in queue

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Wed Jan 24 20:12:30 EST 2018


On 2018-01-24 22:51:02 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> In article <p4aqn4$lpe$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
>>> Why not receive it on VMS?
>> 
>> Sure.
>> 
>> If you're willing to post your usernames and passwords to the whole 
>> Internet.  Because that's what remote mail clients will do, when  
>> accessing OpenVMS.
> 
> If you send an email to me, where is a username or password involved?

I'll ignore the lack of STARTTLS support here, but that's a whole 
'nother issue.

> Passwords for sending  email to VMS?  I'm confused.

Mail clients use credentials to access mail servers.   If you decided 
to hook up that iPad to that OpenVMS server for instance, you'd have to 
use an insecure connection.






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