Should we run an authenticated SMTP service for @name.lug.org.uk addresses?

[JonTheNiceGuy]

This was a request during some oggcamp discussions, and I'm sure it's come up before too.

[RalphCorderoy]

Please clarify. What transaction is being authenticated?

[JonTheNiceGuy]

SMTP Login. Basically, allowing someone not on lug.org.uk infrastructure (e.g. someone who receives lugmaster@some.lug.org.uk, but isn't a lug.org.uk admin), to be able to send email using the lug.org.uk mail service.

To be fair, this is not a common request, but it was something I could have done with, briefly, during my tenure of organising oggcamp, and one of the subsequent organisers also asked the same thing.

[gwestwood]

For a limited number of people, then perhaps yes, but if we open it up even just to include all lugmasters this could add quite a bit more administrative work.