From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 19:19:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72539106566B for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:19:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5618FC1B for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:19:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from corinth.polands.org ([75.87.219.217]) by hrndva-omta06.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080312191942.XUSB5710.hrndva-omta06.mail.rr.com@corinth.polands.org> for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:19:42 +0000 Received: from email.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by corinth.polands.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2CJJfEk059687 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:19:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 208.49.58.254 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:19:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <9587.208.49.58.254.1205349581.squirrel@email.polands.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:19:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/6213/Wed Mar 12 12:18:10 2008 on corinth.polands.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Best practice: sendmail and SMTP auth X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:19:43 -0000 Hello, Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this question, but since all my servers are FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, I'll give it a go... I am considering setting up SMTP auth on a number of sendmail instances that I control. After much googling and reading, it is not clear to me that a server with SMTP auth configured/enabled can relay mail in both auth and non-auth modes. If one sendmail configuration cannot accommodate both SMTP auth and access.db, does one setup a dedicated SMTP auth host with a SMART_HOST option and feed incoming email to an non-auth instance of sendmail? Sorry if my terminology is ambiguous, I'm not a sendmail professional by day. -- Regards, Doug