SMTP Server Situation

[DavidH]

I can still send mail without authenticating with the server, what is the situation here?

 

[Logan]

I can still send mail without authenticating with the server, what is the situation here?

I think they may have fixed this now, since jmail broke this morning (EST) and I had to add in SMTP authentication values with the jmail object in order to use jmail to send mail using mail.mydomain.com. So it looks like they may have fixed the security problem, they broke existing jmail scripts

 

[Yash]

I can still send mail without authenticating with the server, what is the situation here?

You can send email without authentication from outlook because the server uses POP3 before SMTP authentication as well. That means it logs your IP when you POP3 for an account and allows you to send email from that IP for a limited time. This is a common SMTp authentication method used by many hosts. There is no security issue at all

Logan, DavidH is talking about something else (nothing to do with JMail, SMTP authentication or Win5)

 

[Logan]

Logan, DavidH is talking about something else (nothing to do with JMail, SMTP authentication or Win5)

That is not clear from his one-line post. You must have more information about his post than I do.

EDIT: And if this has nothing to do with it, why did the existing jmail scripts stop working, and now require SMTP authentication within the code?

 

[Yash]

It doesn't now suddenly require, but there seems to be a reoccuring issue with open relay from Win5 to the mail/cp server. It only exists for Win5-Mail/cp and happens randomly. We are working for a permanent solution to that

To bypass the issue, you can use localhost or use SMTP authentication to connect to the external mail server. Both are very stable connection methods

 

[DavidH]

nothing to worry about then, thanks guys.