On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:34:59PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >Mike Nielsen <mike at getbent.net> writes: > >> Howdy all. I have a few remote users who bounce around from various isps and >> what not. What do I need to do to configure Qmail to accept authentication >> and relay an email for a user. I could just make the server an open relay >> but that never is any good for anyone. Use SMTP-AUTH-TLS. Qmail can be configured to do this, but it's non-trivial. Try exim. It supports it out of the box. Exim4 even support SPA. It's the best MTA i've ever used. > >So you're looking for something like the SMTP-after-POP solutions? >I'd look at Russell Nelson or David Harris's setups for that (see >www.qmail.org), or it's included in some of the fancier virtual >mailbox packages for qmail (vpopmail, I think vmailmgr). > >I'm having network troubles getting to www.lifewithqmail.com right >now, but I thought they discussed this sort of thing, probably in the >section on relaying. > >(If the senders are on fixed IPs, it's *much* easier. But you said >"bounce around" so it sounds like that's not the problem. People also >sometimes tell their users to send *out* using the ISPs smtp server, >which eliminates the problem.) >-- >David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test > John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net > Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ > New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "I got a wife and kids too but you don't see me out here stealing Imperial Droids now do ya?" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020618/316eb4b3/attachment.pgp