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a firewall, so I don't think it could be used for relay by someone else. I
could be happy limiting it to mail that originates on the same machine.

What would be nice is a /usr/bin/mail that is told a box running SMTP to
which the mails should be sent, instead of the local machine.


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 07:36:09 -0500 (EST)
Gerry Doris <gerry at dorfam.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> > Bill Day spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into:
> > > as in?   I still havent quite got SMTP with sendmail working, if I use
> > > my
> > 
> > as in anyone who sucessfully pops first (id and password) can send
> > through my sendmail. right now, I can set you up an account on my
> > machine, and you can pop from it, but you won't be able to send through
> > it cause relaying is denied. If you logged into the machine, you could
> > send. pop before smtp gets around this..
> > 
> I can help you set up sendmail with authorization.  It's quite simple.  
> The idea is that your clients either check authentication required on 
> their mail clients (ie. win Outlook) and point them at your mail server 
> that's running sendmail as the MTA.  Linux boxes just point their mail 
> clients at their own localhost sendmail which is told to use your mail 
> server as their smart host.
> 
> sendmail on your mail server will then authenticate your clients using 
> their user name and password.  They will also be able to relay through 
> your mail server without problems.
> 
> I have to head out to work now but will send on the files this evening so 
> you can see how it works.
> 
> 
> Gerry
> 
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