Ron Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anybody figure out how to support authenticated SMTP?
Yep.
>Any better ideas as to how the authentication protocol is supposed to
>work?
There are at least two different approaches: one is to wrap normal
SMTP with SSL using something like stunnel[1] and set it up on a
different (not 25) port. This is pretty straightforward with qmail
since the SMTP daemon is a standalone module. I'm not aware of any
detailed documentation on this configuration.
Another is to install the STARTTLS patch to qmail[2]. With this patch
installed, both secured and unsecured SMTP sessions take place through
port 25.
Which you can/should use depends upon which will work with your MUA's.
-Dave
Footnotes:
[1] http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel/
[2] http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~vermeule/qmail/tls.patch
