This is timely and would be greatly appreciated! With all the problems that @home mail used to have I decided just to set up my own server and avoid them altogether. This has been working great until last weekend. Suddenly mail sent to addresses on my ISP starting to bounce. Checking I found out that they had quietly enabled authentication. It seems they don't appreciate mail coming from outside their server with a from address of their domain!
I got around this by pointing my mail clients at their server instead of going through my own for sending mail. I've been trying all week to understand how to set up sendmail to: 1. use authentication. I've got it running LOGIN PLAIN but pine complains loudly about it being insecure. 2. how to get my sendmail server to authenticate with my ISP's so I can go back to using it again for sending all mail. This information is definitely not easy to find. I'm sure it's there but I'm having difficulty understanding how to do it! Gerry On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > I don't normally do this, but seeing as everyone uses sendmail for something > else and uses some other feature that no one else uses, I expect to get a big > benefit from this. > Attached is the *start* of a sendmail sxs. Please review, > and reply with comments, additions, etc. > I'm hoping to buld out a section of the site for sendmail and all the things > can be done with it (the various addressing games, anti-virus interfaces, > spam killer interfaces, etc) so all comments (or even better, small > write-ups) are welcome. > Please refrain from 'use postfix' and other such > comments. those programs are getting write-ups in the near future on their > own merits. we're dealing with "demystifing" sendmail right now. thanks! > > -- "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.