I use sendmail, and haven't had much experience with qmail (what I have had I'd wish I hadn't, but that's another story).
To get smtp auth working with sendmail you use sasl (my guess is qmail doesn't use this mechanism), and then authenticate using the imap daemon. with sasl the options go like this: /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a rimap -O localhost I would think with qmail there is a sexier way to handle SMTP AUTH (maybe pass the authentication information off to a perl or shell script?) I've seen it work with regular UNIX accounts before, but wasn't involved in the original setup in that case. anyways, just an idea if you want to avoid the whole pop b4 smtp mess. > Message: 1 > From: =?iso-8859-1?B?QW5kculzIE1vbGluYSBWaWxsYW51ZXZh?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:53:53 +0200 > Subject: [Dbmail] Qmail smtp auth > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Hi all! > I'm using qmail+dbmail. The pop3 and imap services run very well but I have > many problems with the smtp-auth patch for qmail. > Does somebody know how can I do 'smtp auth' without patching qmail? > Can I use dbmail-smtp to do the 'smtp auth'? > Many thanks in advance! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Dale rienda suelta a tu tiempo libre. Encuentra mil ideas para exprimir tu > ocio con MSN Entretenimiento. http://entretenimiento.msn.es/ >
