From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 6 10:13:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gifw.genroco.com (genroco.com [205.254.195.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0A337B479 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:13:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gi2.genroco.com (gi2.genroco.com [192.133.120.3]) by gifw.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14890; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:13:43 -0600 Received: from scot.genroco.com (scot.genroco.com [192.133.120.125]) by gi2.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA11741; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:13:37 -0600 Message-ID: <020a01c0481d$4b93c200$7d7885c0@genroco.com> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "Evren Yurtesen" Cc: References: Subject: Re: sendmail and auth Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:13:36 -0600 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 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: "Evren Yurtesen" > 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