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Re: UNAUTH

2011-05-31 21:09:11

The place it might have value would be high traffic webmail
servers, where a single application serves a large number of
users. The ability to keep a connection pool open might be
helpful. TCP setup and teardown isn't that expensive compared
to authentication, but TLS setup might be.

Seems to me that RFC 4954 provides the the AUTH=mailbox parameter
on MAIL FROM for just this scenario.

R's,
John