[Nmh-workers] smtp submission, tls, sasl, ...

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On Nov 20, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Paul Fox <address@hidden> wrote:

> right.  reporting the error precisely is hard.  but given that we're
> changing the default client behavior, adding a hint to the message
> might be appropriate:
> post: problem initializing server on port 587; [BHST] no servers available
> post: try -snoop, or check server and port configuration (see mh-tailor(1))

The diagnostics suck and need to be fixed.  In their defence, the ':587' on the 
end of the address is a hint.

Meanwhile, I am hacking TLS support into inc's POP code, and it's quickly 
becoming apparent the assorted bits of network-related code need to be 
consolidated.  This gives a good opportunity to clean up the server-contact 
configs, auth/security info, etc.  Given the IETF's recent enlightenment over 
security, this is a great chance to overhaul the code and actually leap *ahead* 
of the world on something :-)

--lyndon

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