Um, perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but... POP3 is not involved in the sending of messages, hence there is no reason for POP3 authentication to be used when sending messages.
If you want to use external authentication for sending messages then you need to set up SMTP authentication. Since you seem to be wanting the same form of external authentication for sending, you should be able to use or adapt the same code for SMTP authentication that you are currently using for POP3 authentication. Check the Xmail documentation for information on how to set up external SMTP authentication. It's in there - I wrote a module to do NT-domain based authentication for SMTP a while back. At 07:32 11/17/2004, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: >I looked further into the docs on SMTP authentication, and they were no >help. All I got out of that was external as in another mail server. My >question still remains: why does external POP3 authentication not take >place when sending emails? It works just fine otherwise, downloading >messages from the server, but when I try to send a message, then I have >to use the password in the mailusers.tab file, which defeats the purpose >of having external authentication in the first place. What am I doing wrong? > >Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > > >I got my external POP3 authentication via PAM, and can check and receive > >messages correctly through it, however, do I need to set up a similar > >authentication process for SMTP? Currently, it appears as though xmail > >is authenticating users with the internal username and password. I > >thought authentication was done with POP3-before-SMTP? Am I wrong, does > >SMTP have its own authentication? If so, do I need to make an entry in > >/etc/xmail/userauth/smtp/dchweb.com.tab using the info in the docs? I > >am so confused :P > > > >Thanks > >Dustin C. Hatch > > > > > > > >- > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
