-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Jul-2002/10:26 -0400, Edward Marczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7/12/02 12:40 AM, "Kevin Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote: >> >>> If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for >>> authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP auth client. >>> The Sendmail web site <http://www.sendmail.org/> has details. >> >> Auth client. Does that mean it can act as a pass through too? ie. Can I have >> users authorised on my server, and send to a remote server using the same >> authorisation? >> >Even better: setup sendmail to do SMTP authentication. Nice thing is, >RedHat makes this easy. Just uncomment the"confAUTH_MECHANISMS" line in >/etc/sendmail.mc. This way, if someone has an account on your box, they can >auth against that, and relay away! > >...or is that what was meant by 'auth client'?
No, setting sendmail up as an AUTH client means that your sendmail can use a smarthost that requires authentication: +--------+ +----------+ +--------+ +-----------+ | Mail | noauth | Local | auth | ISP | | Recipient | | Client | -----> | Sendmail | ---> | SMTP | --> | ISP | +--------+ +----------+ +--------+ +-----------+ Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE9MD5TpCpg3WyUI50RAvdMAKCUuDLHCUbPatgRo9jQc4S47UMcygCgkLPW pFqyX+m5WZrJBDBm5k/dd1k= =34BG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
