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  From: Greg  <grog@lemis.com>
  To  : Adam Smith <adam.smith@sageautomation.com>
  Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:23:39 +1030

Re: BUGA

On Wednesday,  8 January 2003 at 10:05:04 +1030, Adam Smith wrote:
> I was just attempting to subscribe to the BUGA mailing list, but I'm
> having trouble subscribing.
>
> According to my web searches, is this http://www.knfpub.com/safug/ the
> correct home page?

No.  Where did you find that?  It hasn't hosted the list for at least
three years.

> When I attempt to subscribe to 'majordomo@beldin.net' I get a bounce,
> which reads:
>
>  250-.beldin.nu Postal Service Hello sageautomation.com; ESMTPs are:
>  250-TIME
>  250-AUTH=LOGIN
>  250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
>  250 HELP
>  MAIL From:<adam.smith@sageautomation.com>
>  250 Sender OK - send RCPTs.
>  RCPT To:<majordomo@beldin.net>
>  553 We do not relay without RFC2554 authentication.
>  QUIT
>
> What exactly does this mean?  I had a look at RFC2554 and it is talking
> about the 'AUTH' command.  Does this mean that the server expects me to
> authenticate using AUTH before it will allow me to post mail to it?

It seems so, yes.  I haven't seen that before either.

> I'm not sure of exactly what I'm looking at.

Well, you could try talking to majordomo@lemis.com instead :-)

Greg
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