[olug] SMTP outbound-Cox has no authentication, vendor is not amused.

[Jay Bendon]

I would not be amused either if i used cox!

Yuck.

--Jay


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Dave Thacker <dthacker at bluestrain.net>wrote:

>
> It's postmaster day.....
>
> My wife's business has an application that will email reports to her
> clients.
> The application demands the SMTP host (smarthost.coxmail.com for Cox
> business
> clients) and a user name and password.
>
> Cox does not send the mail if authentication is sent.   Vendor, when told
> of
> Cox's policy, describes it as "1990's technology".  I suppose I could
> dummy up
> a postfix smarthost.  Gah.
>
> Dave Thacker
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