[JAMES-127] Need an optional SMTP AUTH

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: James Core
• Environment: Operating System: Windows XP; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 23584
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gili
• Created: 03/Oct/03 12:19
• Updated: 05/Jun/04 20:10
• Resolved: 05/Jun/04 20:10

Description

The SMTP server should support "optional SMTP AUTH mode" which acts as follows:

• When client connects, server will prompt for AUTH.
• Even if client failed to properly authentication, SMTP server continues
  transaction (but remembers the failure)
• During the rest of the transaction it should be possible to check if the
  client is authenticated or not.

Justification:

Say I get an incoming message which gets flaged as SPAM. I always want to inform
the sender of what happened just in case there has been a mistake and he needs
to know I did not receive his mail. The problem is that often spammers relay
messages from <my address> to <some remote address> which I bounce as SPAM and
as a result I get 100s of notifications daily that "my" mail bounced.

If optional SMTP auth were implemented I'd configure James to do the following:

• If mail is bounced as SPAM and the FROM address is local and the client is
  authenticated, send a notification; otherwise
• Only send a notification if the FROM address is non-local

Please let me know what you think.