Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:35:14 +0200 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> To: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:(2) sendmail and auth Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.10.10011080933500.58738-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> In-Reply-To: <020a01c0481d$4b93c200$7d7885c0@genroco.com>
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I have done that already but it actually doesnt work. I wonder if there is somebody who had very hard time making it work too. There are very little information in Sendmail and Cyrus SASL documents about how to configure each of them etc. On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > 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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