Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 15:58, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>> Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:11, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
>>
>> > The second part of my mail that you conveniently removed actually
>> > explains why that doesn't work: because the SASL auth is inherently
>> > per-user configuration but in sendmail you can configure it only
>> > globally for the client side.
>>
>> Then replace sendmail with something better.
>>
>> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_sender_dependent_authentication
> Doesn't this require creating an account on the server for those
> administrative jobs and either turning off authentication when sending
> mail, or storing authentication credentials for each of those mail
> accounts in the postfix config file?

It requires obviously giving postfix the credentials to use with every
different smtp entry point you wish to configure (which is more secure
than having each MUA keep a copy in its own config file)

http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html#client_sasl_sender

>> Here, done, time elapsed: 1 min googling.
> Great. But does this really solve anything except refuting the most
> immediate statement by Lennart,

It refutes the given argument

> taken out of context?

Why out of context? Lennart wrote "but you can not do xxx with the system
MTA". I pointed out that actually xxx has been possible for quite a long
time. The "sendmail sucks therefore Fedora should not ship a system MTA"
had been answered before.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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