[imp] how to deal with sendmail starttls and auth?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Hi,

> Is there any reason to require SMTP-auth when connecting from localhost?

No, both for AUTH and STARTTLS.

> I thought the whole point of SMTP-auth was to be able to allow relaying by
> non-local hosts without either being an open relay or using one of the
> SMTP-after-POP utilities.

You are totally right in this. But what would be the way to avoid running a
second sendmail daemon only listening on 127.0.0.1?

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