On 10-Sep-2011, at 8:30 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 04:14:57AM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > Let me restore the focus of the thread a bit. > > I want to use smtp daemon that will manage a queue of outgoing mails and > use a relay host to send mails. > > Many of them fit the bill. No problem so far. > > The relay host requires authentication. I'd like to store the > authentication details on client side - as non root user. Many client > programs do that who invoke sendmail. But that doesn't give you queue > ability. > > The daemon may need authnetication details not only at the time of > submitting a mail to queue but also when it for example has to retry > sending mails. This takes away the flexibility of specifying relay host > and auth details entirely on client side.
You may find following link useful. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/postfix-multiple-isp-accounts-smarthost-smtp-client/ > I don't think it's a totally unmeetable requirement technically, though I > do not know of a daemon that provides this flexibility or how to configure > one with such flexibility. If you want to integrate the password update for smarthost smtp client with multiple isp accounts over STMP; so that it is transparent to MUA, you may need to write your own smtpd. Following may be useful in that case. http://docs.python.org/library/smtpd.html http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/smtpd/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1138425/add-smtp-auth-support-to-python-smtpd-library-cant-override-the-method _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
