[PLUG] authenicating smtp server

chris linux at chrisroberts.org
Wed Apr 30 09:14:02 UTC 2003


Qmail does support auth-smtp but only with a patch. If you want something to 
do everything, IMAP, POP, and SMTP with auth-smtp support, mysql support and 
lots of other stuff built in check out:

http://www.courier-mta.org

I set this up on my server at work and love it.

Chris

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 08:55 am, Chris Emery wrote:
> 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).
>
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