[PLUG] authenicating smtp server

[Chris Emery]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Josh Orchard wrote:
> 
> > As I'm trying to now add this I have heard of a few options.  One is
> > pop first then allow from that IP smtp services for some amount of
> > time.  I also think there is authenicated smtp.
> 
> POP-before-SMTP is a huge kludge. Just say no.
> 
> Authenticated SMTP is the way to go. I know sendmail and postfix both 
> support it; I don't know about exim or qmail.
> 
> > Can someone point me in a direction to look for a way to configure
> > my box to somehow authenicate users then allow them to send email
> > via my server?
> 
> It all depends on what mail server you're running: sendmail? postfix? 
> Let us know, then our advice will be more useful.
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>

qmail supports Authenticated SMTP and on Gentoo it's suported out of the box, though I think it's out of the box everywhere (not sure, can't find any patches that would be aplied to it though on Gentoo).