Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:39:35 -0000 From: "Jason Halbert" <res02jw5@gte.net> To: "Ken Bolingbroke" <ken@bolingbroke.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Mail Servers Message-ID: <025501c06d39$9eee3a70$17622104@next> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012231502000.29768-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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The evidence suggests that "Ken Bolingbroke" wrote: [snip] > Presumably, your friends' ISPs already provide mail relay services for > their dialup. The easiest course of action is to have each of your users > use their own dial-up provider's mail relay for outgoing SMTP, even if > they use your mail server's POP for incoming mail. That way, you don't > need to worry about opening yourself up to abuse from anyone else who > shares the same ISPs as your users. > > The somewhat harder course of action would be to use SMTP AUTH, which asks > for a login and password before allowing relay, but the end-user's client > has to support it. > > Ken Yes... that is exactly what I would like to do. I am positive that all my users are using Windows machines and just about all the Windows mail readers (Outlook and Outlook Express, most likely) support SMTP AUTH. I would even like to go further and use SPA (Secure Password Authentication) for my SMTP, as well as my POP server, but I don't know if that is supported by Sendmail. --- Jason jason@jason-n3xt.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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