On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > We've got a document at work that very clearly describes qmail-remote, > > along with some of our extensions. Is it worth implementing that part > > of qmail in perl - is there any part of qmail-remote that people would > > like to plug into? > > The ability to do authenticated SMTP outbound would be quite useful.
OTOH, the main reason you'd want to do this is if your ISP uses belt and braces approach to spammer control, and both restricts outbound SMTP and also requires athentication at their SMTP gateway. I think the easiest way to deal with this with qmail is to have an SMTP proxy listening on port 26 (say), and set up a wildcard smtproute to point to localhost:26. The proxy would talk outbound to the ISP's SMTP gateway, and do encryption/authentication. This way we wouldn't need to change qmail-remote. Now since we already have SMTP proxy code, we have a head start. Right? -- Charlie
