[clug] verifying sender to smarthost from exim box

[Alex Satrapa]

On 7 Mar 2005, at 11:57, John Griffiths wrote:

> 1) in thunderbird I need to verify even if I've already run a pop to
> get my mail down

Is your ISP using SASL, perhaps? If you're using Perl, the Net::SMTP 
package supports SASL. I would expect (but I don't know) that Exim and 
Postfix would support SASL for mail sending operations.

Alex