Unless using AUTH to a replicated or central auth mechanism like SQL or LDAP. Your gateway simply has to have a mechanism for supporting it, which almost all should support the AUTH in conjunction with SASL or PAM. The only case this wouldn't work well would be IMail DB auth, unless you push scheduled updates from your registry to the gateway's authentication DB (it'd probably be more secure than IMail anyway :)
This is how many of the proxy / aggregatation boxes handle SMTP, POP, or IMAP authentication since the user must be authenticated before hitting the remote server. -ives ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles Frolick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] Distributed Mail Servers? > > Does Imail peering use VRFY in an AUTH situation if the user is not > > at his peer server (of course how could it check the password, it > > would have to issue a chain AUTH after VRFY)? > > You can't AUTH to your non-home server. > > -Sandy > > > ------------------------------------ > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
