Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:47:17 -0600 From: "DaleCo Help Desk" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: "Steve Warwick" <ukla@attbi.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail: non-relay & secure Message-ID: <004a01c28098$97a480c0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <B9E5EF5C.3B18%ukla@attbi.com>
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From: "Steve Warwick" <ukla@attbi.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: Sendmail: non-relay & secure > Hi, > > I have sendmail / qpopper running on a production machine and have yet to > figure out a way to open mail up to my client sin a secure way. > > Eg. Client logs in from aol.com to check and send mail. > > Is there a way to do this that will not open my machine up to abuse? > > > TIA > > > Steve Seems like a standard way to do this is something like "POP before SMTP." If a certain IP authorizes on POP, it's marked as a relay for xx minutes. I'm not sure how this is accomplished, or how secure it's considered, but it's been done, and I've seen it advised here to someone in a similar situation. You might look around for it... HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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