> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sujit Jagdev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:36 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: RE: SMTP_AUTH or not to SMTP_AUTH
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have been using JAMES for over a year. I use it to handle
> email alerts from hardware devices on the network. I have
> configured these devices with varying userids and passwords
> as I need the SMTP_AUTH mechanism on. But, now I have to
> incorporate devices that cannot support SMTP_AUTH. These less
> sophisticated mail clients need to be managed as well. Is
> there anyway I can get JAMES to handle mail while toggling
> SMTP_AUTH mechanism. Or do I have to install another instance
> of JAMES to manage mail from this different sets of devices. Sujit
I run apache james 2.2.0 and use SMTP_AUTH "selectively".
Actually when you have SMTP_AUTH enabled, it is only required of the
client if the recipient hostname is not found in your list of
servernames. So given:
<servernames autodetect="false" autodetectIP="false">
<servername>mailhome.foo.domain</servername>
<servername>moremail.foo.domain</servername>
</servernames>
If a message is sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then SMTP_AUTH is not required.
But if a message were sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", then SMTP_AUTH must take place.
Also, there is the
<authorizedAddresses>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx</authorizedAddresses> section
where you can enumerate address of senders that don't require SMTP_AUTH
in order to relay.
So if your hardware devices are sending mail to a domain you control,
then you should be fine. If you can count of the addresses of the
devices, you'll be fine. Otherwise you could write a mailet that matches
mail coming from those specific devices and let them go out.
If for some reason you must run a separate SMTP server, I have been
successfully running multiple copies of james within one phoenix
container.
-broc
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