Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:13:36 -0600 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Evren Yurtesen" <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail and auth Message-ID: <020a01c0481d$4b93c200$7d7885c0@genroco.com> References: <Pine.A41.4.10.10011061711580.13510-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>
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From: "Evren Yurtesen" <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> > Well I ment if somebody is using Authentication with sendmail. > You know in your mail client you can set your password and username > so the server can authenticate you when you are sending email. > I see this is available in the latest versions of sendmail. > Sendmail now supports SMTP authentication I guess... > Quote from the readme is below; > > +--------------------------------+ > | SMTP AUTHENTICATION | > +--------------------------------+ > : > which checks whether a user has successfully authenticated using > any available mechanism. Depending on the setup of the CYRUS SASL > library, more sophisticated rulesets might be required, e.g., > : > > > I just wondered if anybody configured this so far? > This is quite handy when your customers do connect from a lot of > different ISP's which doesnt offer SMTP service or the other ISP > is also offering SMTP service to their customers only with SMTP > authentication etc. > I believe several people are using SASL authentication with sendmail. All you need to do is Install the Cyrus SASL port, read the Sendmail.README file for adding a few configuration variables to your /etc/make.conf file. Then rebuild either sendmail, or rebuild FreeBSD. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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