On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:21 AM, John Shireley wrote:
If I'm reading your request correctly, I think that the answer is no.That's really not an option for me, not being an db admin, +and+ I have to continue using /etc/passwd users for various reasons. I think my question can pretty much be boiled down to this: is SMTP-auth not able to function since the server has its mail proxied to it by a firewall running qmail with an smtproutes entry?
You want the users to connect to the firewall's SMTP port and authenticate so it will accept mail (either for relay to other domains, or for local users).
The user database with passwords is located on another machine though. This means that the firewall machine would need to contact the true mail server in order to authenticate users.
Instead of proxying the mail with an smtproute entry on the firewall, you could forward all SMTP (port 25) traffic directly to the mail server. You should be able to do SMTP AUTH at that point, but you'll want to make sure the server has whatever protections you had in place on the firewall machine (previously providing SMTP forwarding).
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Tom Collins
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