Quoting Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom (chrome at real-time.com): > > The second (bigger) problem is setting up the server so I can use e-mail > > clients such as Netscape or Outhouse. The real trick (I'm sure it's > > turned off by default) is that the people using POP/SMTP clients will be > > all over the internet so I can't filter by IP addresses. I know, I'm > > opening up a very nice SPAM relay but there's no good way around it that I > > can tell. What do I have to do to get Sendmail to accept connections from > > SMTP/POP e-mail clients? > > if you can't restrict the range of IPs, you need to look at setting up some > sort of SMTP authentication. cyrus-sasl is the package we commonly use for > that task here; but I'm hardly an expert on it, and other people would have > to fill you in on the details of setting it up. Grab these RPMs, they have all the stuff you need for authenticated SMTP. http://www.mn-linux.org/members/tanner/ Scan down for RPMS. Get: sendmail sendmail-doc sendmail-cf cyrus-sasl openldap -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (612)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (612)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9