From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 15:39:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 15:39:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop2pub.verizon.net (smtppop2pub.gte.net [206.46.170.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CD037B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from next (crtntx1-ar3-098-023.dsl.gtei.net [4.33.98.23]) by smtppop2pub.verizon.net with SMTP ; id RAA73899269 Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:38:51 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <025501c06d39$9eee3a70$17622104@next> From: "Jason Halbert" To: "Ken Bolingbroke" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Mail Servers Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:39:35 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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