Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:07:06 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practice: sendmail and SMTP auth Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080312190519.0255f878@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <9587.208.49.58.254.1205349581.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <9587.208.49.58.254.1205349581.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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At 02:19 PM 3/12/2008, Doug Poland wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this question, but
>since all my servers are FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, I'll give it a go...
>
>I am considering setting up SMTP auth on a number of sendmail
>instances that I control. After much googling and reading, it is not
>clear to me that a server with SMTP auth configured/enabled can relay
>mail in both auth and non-auth modes.
>
>If one sendmail configuration cannot accommodate both SMTP auth and
>access.db, does one setup a dedicated SMTP auth host with a SMART_HOST
>option and feed incoming email to an non-auth instance of sendmail?
>
>Sorry if my terminology is ambiguous, I'm not a sendmail professional
>by day.
>
>
>--
>Regards,
>Doug
You can set up sendmail to do both auth and non-auth. However best
practice is to use auth only to control any spam relaying. Check the
sendmail.org website FAQ's for setting this up. You will want to probably
use cyrus-sasl or cyrus-sasl2 ports along with sendmail.
-Derek
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