-----Original Message-----
From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: woensdag 22 augustus 2001 11:58
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: smtp auth patch is not totally correct
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> maybe it's already mentioned, but I found it now also:
> the smtp auth patch does not require you to use the smtp authentication,
it
> allows you to do so. If you simply ignore the auth parameter (just do a
> telnet to port 25) you'll that everything works without authenticating as
> well.
That's the way SMTP AUTH works. The server offers the ability, and either
the client decides to auth itself to gain relaying privileges or he doesn't
auth and gains no additional privileges. If he already has relaying
privileges (through tcpserver, RELAYCLIENT set) he gains nothing from
authing.
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You're correct here, but sometimes people want everybody to authenticate. I
for example, have a mailinglist server that requires authentication. Now,
without authenticating, I should allow relaying for my clients but I don't
want everybody to be able to use this server. So I added an extra attribute
in ldap, but in order to really *use* this attribute as well, I need
authentication. So now I have a mailinglist server that only specific people
can make use off.
I could be using RELAYCLIENT, but since we're using DHCP, this is not
possible.
Anyway, adding the extra config file code, doesn't change the default
behaviour of SMTP AUTH: if you don't set the file to "1" (for example), then
normal behaviour is assumed.
Franky
Franky
